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Legislation in Nebraska

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I'm catching up on state legislation development in the next three posts.  Wednesday's Omaha World-Herald reported, "Death penalty bill rejected by Nebraska Legislature."In voting to keep the death penalty, state lawmakers Tuesday rebuffed what may have been State Sen. Ernie Chambers' last bid to repeal capital punishment. After 4½ hours of often emotional debate, state senators voted 28-20 against Legislative Bill 1063, Chambers' proposal to replace Nebraska's death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. The vote leaves the state with a death penalty law ? but no way to carry it out. The Nebraska Supreme Court last month barred use of the electric chair, ruling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).