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Legislative update

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

In Nebraska, the death penalty remains, however, the state is left with no means to execute people. AP notes: Nebraska lawmakers rejected an attempt to repeal the death penalty on Tuesday, a month after courts left the state with no way to execute its killers. Twenty senators in the unicameral, officially nonpartisan Legislature voted for the bill to change the maximum penalty to life in prison without possibility of parole. It would have taken 25 votes to advance the debate. The state Supreme Court ruled in February that the electric chair, the state’s sole means of putting inmates to death, amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.. . . Ten men now sit on Nebraska’s death row. In Connecticut efforts to reform that state’s failed eyewitness ID procedures failed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).