The Legislature voted to advance a bill (LB268) to final reading that would replace the death penalty with a life sentence.聽
Voting yes (30): Baker, Bolz, Campbell, Chambers, Coash, Cook, Crawford, Davis, Ebke, Garrett, K. Haar, Hadley, Hansen, B. Harr, Hilkemann, Howard, Johnson, Kolowski, Kolterman, Krist, Lindstrom, McCollister, Mello, Morfeld, Nordquist, Pansing Brooks, Schumacher, Seiler, Sullivan, Williams
Voting no (16): Bloomfield, Brasch, Craighead, Friesen, Gloor, Groene, Hughes, Kintner, Kuehn, McCoy, Riepe, Scheer, Schnoor, Smith, Stinner, Watermeier
Present not voting (2): Larson, Schilz
Excused (1): Murante