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 ?
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.
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.
Good. The State should not be in the business of executing even for those that “deserve” it. That’s not the argument. it is twofold:
1. The State should never have this much power over it’s citizens. period.
2. We know with 100% surety that the innocent have been executed and that many innocents were put on death row and later cleared. The possibility of executing 1 innocent only justifies the execution of another in Islam. We are NOT Islam.
If this can happen in Nebraska — home of Charlie Starkweather — then it can happen anywhere.
You certainly don’t have to use it, but to take it off the books is a huge mistake.
wouldn’t live there anyway. Hope they have ‘less’ crimes. lol
Too many overzealous government officials out there who look for a promotion off the backs of convictions instead of the right conviction. In addition, DNA is clearing people these days.
Duke LaCrosse, Angela Corey, and Baltimore City's DA should open some people's eyes. That doesn't even get to the feds and the "just us" department.
A statement of a pure lunatic.
Capital punishment was saved in DE here this month by one vote--ONE vote, in the face of huge public support for the death penalty. We are run by Democrat loons in DE.
I hope the governor of NE vetoes the bill and the people rise up to save the death penalty.
Otherwise every life in NE is worthless.