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[21] [22] After this defeat, death penalty opponents began a campaign to retain the repeal bill, and changed their name from "Nebraskans for Public Safety" to "Retain a Just Nebraska". [ 23 ] In the November 2016 general election, the death penalty repeal was rejected by a 61–39 margin, thereby retaining capital punishment in the state.
Nebraska prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty in the December killing of a Catholic priest inside his home but will pursue execution in the brutal killing of a retiree during a ...
On May 27, 2015 Nebraska’s unicameral legislature voted 32-15 in favor of LB-268 to override the governor’s veto and eliminate the death penalty. [21] In a November 2016 referendum Nebraskans voted to reverse the repeal measure. January 19, 2017, the Georgia CCATDP was launched in a news conference at the state capitol in Atlanta. [22]
Chambers is a firm opponent of the death penalty, and introduced a bill to repeal Nebraska's capital punishment law at the start of each legislative session, 36 times over 40 years. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] The bill, LB268, [ 50 ] passed the legislature in 1979 but could not overcome Governor Charles Thone 's veto; the issue remained a primary focus of ...
It was one of the three states along with Nebraska and California that put death sentences to a vote.
Conservative Nebraska moved closer on Wednesday to abolishing the death penalty with lawmakers passing a repeal with enough votes to override an expected veto from the state's governor. Senators ...
[44] [45] [46] The plaintiffs appealed the issue to the Nebraska Supreme Court, which upheld the district court's dismissal. [47] [48] The referendum was held in the 2016 general election and the death penalty was retained with 61.2% of the vote. [49] [50]
The first execution in Nebraska reportedly was of Cyrus Tator, a former Kansas Legislature member and judge in Lykins County, Kansas who was tried and convicted of murdering his business partner in 1863. [5] Before 1903, counties carried out executions until the state took over. Since Nebraska statehood in 1867, a total of 14 people have been ...