Nebraska adopts lethal injection
And then you remember that America is a huge place:
LINCOLN – After more than 25 years of trying, a bill passed Thursday making lethal injection the means of execution in Nebraska. [...]
Legislative Bill 36 was introduced after the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled in March 2008 that electrocution – the state’s current execution method – violated the state constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
Nebraska was the last state to have used the electric chair as its sole means of execution. It is among 34 states that have a death penalty; all but Nebraska use lethal injection as at least one of the options.
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You gotta wonder why it took 25 years. What was it about lethal injection some objected to? I find this story disturbing, I suspect those who had a problem with lethal injection miss the good old days of public beheading! I seriously don’t get the love affair so many Americans have with the death penalty.