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Support Shown for Nebraska Death-Penalty Repeal

By: Channel 9 Eyewitness News (AP)   A “test vote” in the Legislature suggests that a majority of Nebraska lawmakers want to abolish the death penalty, but there may not be…

Internet sales might soon no longer be tax free (AUDIO)

Internet sales might soon no longer be tax free (AUDIO)

Congress just might move to tax that next item you buy on the Internet, but a University of Nebraska law professor says it’s a tax that should have been collected…

Bruning fined for campaign finance violations

The Federal Election Commission has fined Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and his Senate campaign committee $19,000 for several violations of campaign finance laws during his 2012 campaign. The civil penalty was agreed…

America’s Syrian Riddle

America’s Syrian Riddle

Recent remarks by Carla Del Ponte, a Swiss investigator of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry, have changed the nature of debate on the use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil…

New faces may turn tide on capital punishment

LINCOLN — The most ardent supporter of capital punishment has left the Nebraska Legislature. The harshest critic is back. And some newly elected state senators oppose the death penalty, unlike…

New faces may turn tide on capital punishment

LINCOLN — The most ardent supporter of capital punishment has left the Nebraska Legislature. The harshest critic is back. And some newly elected state senators oppose the death penalty, unlike…

Don Walton: Political theater in the Legisalture

Channeling the Senate. That Washington model of delay and filibuster seems to have invaded the Nebraska Legislature. It was always available to state senators, and sometimes used; now it appears,…

New faces in Nebraska’s Legislature may turn tide on capital punishment

LINCOLN — The most ardent supporter of capital punishment has left the Nebraska Legislature. The harshest critic is back. And some newly elected state senators oppose the death penalty, unlike…

New faces in Nebraska’s Legislature may turn tide on capital punishment

LINCOLN — The most ardent supporter of capital punishment has left the Nebraska Legislature. The harshest critic is back. And some newly elected state senators oppose the death penalty, unlike…

New faces may turn tide on capital punishment – Omaha World

LINCOLN — The most ardent supporter of capital punishment has left the Nebraska Legislature. The harshest critic is back. And some newly elected state senators oppose the death penalty, unlike…

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