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Nebraska Lethal Injection Debate Today

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The Nebraska Legislature is scheduled to consider LB 36 today at 1:30 pm, CDT.  You can watch streaming video at this link."Nebraska lawmakers to debate lethal injection," is the AP report, via the Lincoln Journal Star.After more than a year of having a death-penalty law but no means to carry it out, lawmakers will debate whether to use lethal injections to execute Nebraska?s condemned killers.Legislative debate on making lethal injection the state?s sole means of execution has been scheduled for Monday afternoon.A pre-session survey by The Associated Press showed most lawmakers supported lethal injection.Nebraska has been without a means of execution since February 2008, when the state Supreme Court ruled that the electric chair was unconstitutional because it amounted to cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).