Category: Death penalty

Nebraska Legislature Overrides Veto of Death Penalty Repeal

May 28, 2015

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by

joanne

in Death penalty, USA

Amnesty International USA Press Release May 27, 2015 Today the Nebraska legislature voted to override Governor Ricketts’ veto of a measure repealing the death penalty. Nebraska will now become the 19th U.S. state to abolish capital punishment, and the seventh state to repeal the death penalty in the past eight years. “Nebraska’s legislature has bravely…