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Nebraska Legislature Gives Initial OK to Lethal Injection Bill

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"Lethal injection bill advances," is Paul Hammel's report in today's Omaha World-Herald.  The article also has a vote tally of the legislators.The growing support for capital punishment within the Nebraska Legislature was clearly evident Tuesday. Observers credited term limits and the exit of the Legislature's leading death-penalty foe, State Sen. Ernie Chambers, as the leading reasons. "We have a lot of work ahead of us," said Jill Francke, statewide coordinator for Nebraskans against the Death Penalty. Francke spoke after state senators gave 34-7 first-round approval for adopting lethal injection as the means of carrying out capital punishment. Nebraska has been without a legal means of execution since the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled 14 months ago that electrocution, the current method, violated the state constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).