* 32 states have the death penalty; 18 do not.
* A bill by Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers to repeal the death penalty in Nebraska passed last week in the Legislature.聽Gov. Pete Ricketts is expected to veto it Tuesday.聽The last time a bill to repeal the death penalty passed was in 1979; it was vetoed by then-Gov. Charles Thone.
* Chambers has offered death penalty-related bills 38 times.
* There hasn't been an execution in Nebraska since Robert Williams died in the electric chair in 1997.
* Nebraska changed its method of execution to lethal injection after the state Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the electric chair amounted to unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
* Michael Ryan, who died Sunday, was one of three of Nebraska's 11 death-row inmates who have exhausted all of their appeals.聽