Conservative Nebraska Legislature Repeals Death Penalty Overriding Governor's Veto. Nebraska becomes first red state to abolish death penalty since '73

• metta
  
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  May 20, 2015 9:01 PM GMT

  Conservative Nebraska Legislature Repeals Death Penalty Against Governor's Veto Threat
  
  
  http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/breaking_conservative_nebraska_legislature_repeals_death_penalty_against_governor_s_veto_threat
  
  Wow...I never thought I would see something like this in such a conservative state.

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• roadbikeRob
  
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  May 21, 2015 12:41 AM GMT

  metta8 saidConservative Nebraska Legislature Repeals Death Penalty Against Governor's Veto Threat
  
  
  http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/breaking_conservative_nebraska_legislature_repeals_death_penalty_against_governor_s_veto_threat
  
  Wow...I never thought I would see something like this in such a conservative state.

  It depends on how you define "conservative". A true conservative is definitely not the narrow minded bible thumping screwballs and the warmongering neocons who have hijacked and contaminated conservatism. A real conservative is a person who wants smaller government, greater freedom, and more individualism. Nebraska is more a populist, libertarian, conservative state unlike the sunbelt theocracies like Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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  May 21, 2015 2:25 AM GMT

  Nebraska is very strange in this way. Full of bible thumping social conservatives to be sure, but most are too busy being productive and/or constructive to waste resources on the endless political pursuit of spite.
  
  A while ago somebody posted about why republicans were "so angry", and my unpopular response was based on having grown up in Nebraska: in my experience Nebraskan conservatives often genuinely believe that their conservative politics are defensive, and in a way there is some sincerity to their claims that if you leave them alone they'll leave you alone.
  
  This is a sadly outmoded attitude in today's age of global and hypercynical politics, but artifacts like this do not surprise me at all.

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  May 21, 2015 10:06 PM GMT

  I think this is a good thing. The death penalty should had been done away with years ago. It's a shame that the US is the only Western nation that still has it. It's kind of embarrassing.
  This latest repeal is a step in the right direction, but too late for the 1,000 plus people who have already been executed sine the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

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  May 22, 2015 12:16 AM GMT

  I know it's shocking the US still has the death penalty but this is a step in the right direction!

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• metta
  
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  May 27, 2015 9:38 PM GMT

  Nebraska Votes To Repeal Death Penalty
  
  Nebraska becomes first red state to abolish death penalty since '73
  
  Lawmakers repealed the death penalty on Wednesday with a 30-19 vote that overrode the veto Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts signed on Tuesday.
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/27/nebraska-repeals-death-penalty_n_7453162.html

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• Lincsbear
  
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  May 27, 2015 9:54 PM GMT

  A striking political act.

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