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In Saturday's St. Joseph (MO) News-Press, columnist Steve Booher wrote, "Finding a 'humane' method of execution proves a struggle."Monday morning probably isn?t the time to debate the question of whether a state should impose the death penalty on those convicted of brutal and heinous murders. And you can?t decide that anyway after reading just a few sentences written on an opinion page of a daily newspaper. But the death penalty debate continues, particularly in Nebraska, where that state?s Supreme Court ruled that using the electric chair as a method of execution was cruel and inhumane punishment. Now state officials are debating whether the ruling commutes death sentences to life imprisonment or whether condemned inmates should be executed by another method...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).