Posted on 05/20/2015 12:10:17 PM PDT by GIdget2004
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska lawmakers gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill abolishing the death penalty that would make it the first conservative state to do so since 1973 if the measure becomes law.
The vote margin in the unicameral Legislature was more than enough to override a promised veto from Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts, a staunch supporter of capital punishment, who said that it was a "dark day" for public safety.
"Nebraska has a chance to step into history — the right side of history — to take a step that will be beneficial toward the advancement of a civilized society," said Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, an independent who has fought for four decades to the end the death penalty.
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What on earth has motivated them to do this? Why would they be so foolish?
Well, it certainly is nice to see Nebraska has eradicated murder within its borders...
The media really is that influential.
The Bible calls for capital punishment in homicide cases.
Leviticus 24:17
Who knew that Nebraska’s legislature was being led by that deranged Communist racist Ernie Chambers ?
“What on earth has motivated them to do this? Why would they be so foolish?”
Perhaps they are looking at warehousing prisoners for profit.
Not to mention the covenant God made made with Noah.
The punishment for any sin is death.
I just see it as all part of the continuing pattern of America becoming a spineless nation of wimps.
If their justice system is too barbaric to administer the death penalty...
it’s too barbaric to administer any penalty.
Their citizens should best demand a better justice system instead of giving up.
Ernie Chambers is listed as an independent because the Demoncratic party is MUCH too right-wing for him.
It’s that unicameral legislature at work here: members are more liberal than they would be with D and R labels. Only way to get capital punishment, and to use it too, is to go to partisan elections for the legislature.
What a bunch of knob gobblers, enough to override a veto? Maybe it’s time to go partisan and bicameral. Regular Republican primaries could get rid of some of these chumps.
I’ve been open to the idea of unicameral state legs but others, as I recall Auh2, argued strongly that it makes it too easy to pass shite like this.
Unicameral and nominally “non-partisan” too
Oh, an aside, how about we let these arseholes elect Nebraska’s US Senators, eh? That would be gangbusters.
The NE legislature is officially non-partisan, but it has been GOP majority for decades (at present 34R-14D-1C). Chambers isn’t a Democrat for the exact reason you cited. The only party he has supported was the “New Alliance Party”, which was Communist (whose label he ran under for U.S. Senate in 1988).
Heh, we’d get Hagel cretins for years.
Leviticus 24:17
I'm so thankful that Jesus freed me from Levitical law.
Don't take that as a comment, either pro or con on the death penalty.
If we were still under Levitical/Mosaic law, I suspect that you and I both would have to build a battlement on our roof tops to keep any of our guests from falling off, because that's a law too.
Let 's not even talk about being circumcised, I'm not and I'm too old to even think about it.
If the state refuses to execute heinous murderers, it is by default left up to the people to use the legal means at their disposal to kill such fiends.
While police are obligated to try an arrest violent criminals in the commission of a felony crime, ordinary citizens are under no such obligation. This means citizens should discontinue any “warning shots”, or efforts to shoot to wound, or to stop firing if subjectively a criminal may be incapacitated, but they cannot determine that they are in fact incapacitated.
For particularly foul murderers, an understanding with police might be reached that there is no pressing need for a trial with life imprisonment, that it would be far more to the point that when the opportunity presented itself that the murderer would commit suicide, without much effort to prevent them from doing so.
However, by far it is the armed citizenry who must make up for this injustice.
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