Nebraska's 11 death row inmates
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Nobody really doubted the death penalty referendum petition campaign would have enough signatures verified to hold up the Legislature's repeal.
A campaign to gather petition signatures to stop a repeal of the death penalty spent $903,000 over the summer, campaign finance reports show.Â
Gov. Pete Ricketts said late Friday afternoon he will delay any executions in the state until after Nebraskans vote on the death penalty repea…
Kirk Bloodsworth holds himself up as a living example of why the death penalty should not be handed out and people should not be executed.
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There are villains and there are villains.Â
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An Omaha attorney will represent condemned killer Jose Sandoval in his bid to fight the state's attempt to execute him via lethal injection.Â
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The ACLU of Nebraska argued in Lancaster County District Court on Friday against dismissal of its lawsuit filed on behalf of death-row inmates…
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The Nebraska Supreme Court has given Carey Dean Moore's attorneys a deadline to respond to the attorney general's request for an execution warrant.
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Nebraska Catholic bishops said Friday they opposed the setting of an execution date for condemned prisoner Carey Dean Moore.Â
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Why have I so relentlessly fought against the death penalty for more than two score years?
Gov. Pete Ricketts on Wednesday said he expects the state’s Department of Corrections will carry out the execution of Nebraska’s longest-servi…
Why have I so relentlessly fought against the death penalty for more than two score years?
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Patrick Schroeder was sentenced to death by a three-judge panel in 2018 for strangling 22-year-old Terry Berry at the Tecumseh State Prison when they shared a cell meant for solitary confinement.
Jenkins is on death row in Nebraska after killing four people in Omaha shortly after his 2013 release from prison.
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The killer's attorney points out that prison experts have voted four times over the past 28 months that he should be forced to take psychotropic medications to treat a mental illness.
John Lotter's attorney said an expert's evaluation and testing of him in 2017 showed sub-average intellectual functioning, an IQ score of 67 and deficits in adaptive behavior that have been present since childhood.Â
In 2003, Arthur L. Gales was sentenced to death for the first-degree murder of two children, 13-year-old Latara Chandler and 7-year-old Tramar Chandler, in Omaha in 2001.
Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner said that if drugs are a problem, lawmakers should consider other execution methods, such as firing squads.
Addressing the Loofe family, Trail said: "I won't say I'm sorry, as that would be an insult to you after what I put you through, and I won't ask for forgiveness as I don't believe there is such a thing."
Prosecutors pointed to the gratuitous number of cuts to dismember Sydney Loofe's body and cut marks around the tattoo on her arm that said "Everything will be wonderful someday" as signs that Boswell relished the crime.
Patrick Schroeder is the fifth death row inmate to die while awaiting execution by the state.Â
"The defendant doesn't get rewarded for bad behavior," James D. Smith, Senior Assistant Nebraska Attorney General, said.
Doug Koebernick, Inspector General of the Nebraska Correctional System, said their investigation will be focused on the death, the events that surrounded it and whether staff followed prison policies.Â
Within hours, Jose Sandoval, Jorge Galindo and Erick Vela would be locked up for the murder of five people in Norfolk. But nothing else in the cases has happened quickly.
Jason Jones is charged with the Aug. 4 shooting deaths of Michele Ebeling, 53, Gene Twiford, 86, his wife, Janet Twiford, 85, and their daughter Dana Twiford, 55.
The Journal Star read the trial transcripts and reviewed the exhibits put before the grand jury to get a glimpse of what happened in the deaths of seven inmates.
Erwin Charles Simants, the infamous Nebraska man who was twice put on trial for killing six members of a Lincoln County family in 1975, died last week in state custody.
The federal filing comes on the heels of Jorge Galindo's unsuccessful bid for the Nebraska Supreme Court to rehear his case, following a split decision in September.
Marco Torres Jr's federal public defender, Stephen Ferrell, said he wanted to emphasize to the court that this isn't a fishing expedition "or some wild goose chase."
A legal battle over whether the death penalty question will be put to Nebraska voters in November reached the state's highest court Wednesday.
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Marylyn Felion stood outside the Nebraska State Penitentiary in 1994 watching the crowds gathered for Harold Lamont "Walkin' Wili" Otey's execution.Â
Gov. Pete Ricketts on Tuesday dismissed concerns about a lack of transparency in proposed changes to Nebraska's lethal injection protocol.