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Nebraska legislators are set to debate capital punishment tomorrow.  The Omaha World-Herald reports, "No urgency this time on executions."The Nebraska Supreme Court last month decided to pull the plug on the electric chair. This week, the Legislature will consider whether to close the execution chamber for good. Lawmakers on Tuesday will begin debating Legislative Bill 1063, which would abolish the death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without parole. It will be the third time in a little more than a year that the Legislature has debated capital punishment. In 2007, lawmakers fell one vote short of advancing, from first-round debate, a bill to repeal the death penalty. Death penalty opponents then regrouped and proposed to sharply restrict death sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).