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28 May 2015, 10:46 am
It's extremely unlikely that the citizens of Nebraska support it less than the national average; if anything, in a conservative and Republican state, support is likely to be considerably higher.But this week, Nebraska's unicameral legislature abolished capital punishment in the state. [read post]
28 May 2015, 7:52 am
One thing each of those states has in common is the presence of a robust Democratic Party that, at least occasionally, controls the legislative and executive branches of the state.That is not really true of the latest state to ban the death penalty-Nebraska. [read post]
28 May 2015, 6:21 am
[JURIST] Nebraska on Wednesday became the first Republican-controlled state to repeal the death penalty [Bill 268, PDF] since 1973. [read post]
28 May 2015, 5:09 am
In March 2012, Nebraska Department of Justice Officer Edward Sexton discovered an IP address sharing files of child pornography through Gnutella and LimeZilla. [read post]
28 May 2015, 4:30 am
Legal borderlands include spaces such as bordertowns on the margins of Indian reservations (Whiteclay, Nebraska and Pine Ridge) and international boundaries (El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua); mining camps that host a vast range of racial/ethnic and gendered residents (Clifton-Morenci in Arizona); and multilingual courtrooms where federal, state, territorial, and tribal laws intersect (everywhere in the West). [read post]
27 May 2015, 3:49 pm
"Nice going, Nebraska. [read post]
27 May 2015, 3:26 pm
In that sense, the legislature abolished what was barely there anyway.Still, the decision has moral consequence -- so much so that, in my view, the voters should pass on it themselves, as Oregon voters did in both the general elections of 1978 and again in 1984 (the latter to effectively overrule a state Supreme Court decision that invalidated the state's death penalty statute). [read post]
27 May 2015, 3:10 pm
"Nebraska Abolishes Death Penalty": Julie Bosman of The New York Times has a news update that begins, "Nebraska on Wednesday became the first conservative state in more than 40 years to abolish the death penalty, with lawmakers defying their Republican governor, Pete Ricketts, a staunch supporter of capital punishment who had lobbied vigorously against banning it. [read post]
27 May 2015, 12:42 pm
Besides Texas, the other states challenging Obama’s action are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. [read post]
26 May 2015, 8:20 pm
Kent observes that death penalty retentionists would advance their cause by proposing solutions to the practical problems in carrying out executions, prominently among them manufactured procedural delays in post-sentence litigation.I suggest that Nebraska legislators ask themselves this: Do we, and do the people of this state, really want a future jury never to be able to impose the death penalty? [read post]
26 May 2015, 5:51 pm
AP reports that Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts has vetoed a bill to repeal the death penalty that passed the one-house legislature 32-15. [read post]
26 May 2015, 1:20 pm
26 May 2015, 10:15 am
In addition, there was no way the federal government could foresee the dramatically different applications of ICWA across the fifty states. [read post]
26 May 2015, 5:37 am
He spent 30 years on death row in Nebraska - a state where the unicameral legislature just voted to abolish the death penalty and has, at least if they hold together, enough votes to override promised gubernatorial veto - and then died on his own, without human intervention. [read post]
22 May 2015, 9:26 am
All of the other states currently offering the UBE are smaller than New York State. [read post]
21 May 2015, 11:43 am
Although the state Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that the board could not revoke physicians' licenses, physicians in the state have still been hesitant. [read post]
21 May 2015, 9:04 am
(Note: at the time of this writing, enforcement of this amendment is on hold in the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Nebraska due to a federal court injunction.) [read post]
20 May 2015, 2:24 pm
Federal prosecutors filed a single misdemeanor charge of shipping adulterated food against the Omaha, Nebraska, based company along with a plea deal Wednesday in U.S. [read post]
20 May 2015, 12:20 pm
ConAgra Grocery Products LLC is based in Omaha, Nebraska, with a manufacturing facility in Sylvester, Georgia. [read post]
