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All eyes on Nebraska Tuesday

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Last month Nebraska’s Supreme Court removed the state’s only mean to conduct executions, holding the electric chair violated basic norms of decency. A de facto moratorium ensued amidst political opposition to reviving executions. Tuesday an effort to break the status quo will occur with an attempt to abolish the death penalty. The Omaha World Herald notes: Lawmakers on Tuesday will begin debating Legislative Bill 1063, which would abolish the death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without parole. It will be the third time in a little more than a year that the Legislature has debated capital punishment. In 2007, lawmakers fell one vote short of advancing, from first-round debate, a bill to repeal the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).