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Developing Nebraska's Lethal Injection Protocol

By Steve Hall

"Nebraska consulting with other states on death penalty," is the title of Nate Jenkins' AP report via the Lincoln Journal Star. Nebraska officials have obtained advice from execution experts in Kentucky and Texas on a protocol to carry out the state's new lethal-injection law, and say they could have a proposal by this fall. "We've been moving this with haste because we knew that we wanted these procedures developed'' as soon as possible,'' said Robert Houston, director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. In May, Nebraska lawmakers and Gov. Dave Heineman approved legislation making lethal injection the means of executing the state's condemned killers. It replaces electrocution, which the state Supreme Court in February 2008 ruled was cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).