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Death Penalty Debate in Nebraska

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"Both sides speak out on death penalty," is Paul Hammel's report in today's Omaha World-Herald.The son of one of the five people gunned down in a Norfolk bank spoke forcefully Thursday in support of Nebraska's death penalty. "My name is Bill Sun, and I am a victim," Sun told the Legislature's Judiciary Committee in a hearing room packed to overflowing. Lethal injection, he told them, must be adopted so "the system will work." His father, Samuel Sun, was one of the bank victims. Just as forcefully, Sadie Bankston stared out at the lawmakers and told them she had forgiven the man who gunned down her son, Wendell Grixby, on an Omaha street in 1989."I am not for the death penalty because the death penalty will not bring back my son," Bankston said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).