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The Omaha World-News reports, "Nebraska attorney general asks court to reconsider ban on electric chair."Labeling it a "long shot," Attorney Gen. Jon Bruning is asking the Nebraska Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling banning electrocution as cruel and unusual punishment. The Feb. 8 ruling, which came on a 6-1 vote, ended use of the state's electric chair. The ruling did not abolish the death penalty. While the high court rarely grants rehearings of its rulings, Bruning said he would not have filed his request on Tuesday if he felt "there was no chance of victory." In the motion for rehearing, co-signed by Solicitor General J. Kirk Brown, the attorney general's office claimed five errors in the ruling. In a related matter, Bruning said it was irrelevant that he, as a state senator in 2001, testified at a legislative hearing that electrocution was cruel and unusual punishment ? the exact opposite of what the motion he filed states...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).