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Public Comment on Nurses’ Role in Capital... nursingworld.org |
A total of 37 individuals have been executed in Nebraska including 3 since 1976 as US Supreme Court allowed the resumption of executions. A total of 10 people are under a sentence of death in the state as of May 2009. On February 8, 2008, the Nebraska Supreme Court declared electrocution "cruel and unusual punishment"; on May 28, 2009, the state legislature adopted lethal injection as its execution method.
[edit] ProcessThe jury decides the sentence and may punish First Degree Murder as a Class I felony or a Class IA felony. According to Nebraska law, Class I felonies mean death is the punishment and Class IA felonies mean life imprisonment without parole is the punishment. Death sentences are automatically appealed to a three-judge panel. The Governor of Nebraska sits on the board that determines clemency. 31 people have been given clemency including 11 since 1976. First Degree Murder is the only Class I crime. Nebraska State Penitentiary is where executions in Nebraska have taken place since 1903. Like in any other state, people who are under 18 at the time of the capital crime or mentally retarded are constitutionally precluded from being executed. [edit] MethodThe sole method of execution in Nebraska is lethal injection.[1] Historically, Hanging was the method Nebraska used up to the execution of Albert Prince. In 1913 after the execution of Albert Prince, a new law was passed requiring electric chair as the method of execution and outlawed hanging. Allison Cole was the first person executed by the electric chair in Nebraska.[2] As of 2007, the electric chair was required as the method of execution. On February 8, 2008, the Nebraska Supreme Court declared electrocution to constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Nebraska Constitution, effectively staying all death sentences in Nebraska.[3] However, the state legislature approved the bill to change its method of execution from electrocution to lethal injection; Gov. Dave Heineman signed the bill on May 28, 2009. Nebraska was the last state to adopt lethal injection as execution method.[4] [edit] Capital offenses
[edit] List of individuals executed in Nebraska before 1976A total of 14 individuals have been executed in the U.S. state of Nebraska from its statehood in 1867 when counties carried out executions until 1903 when the state took over executions.
A total of 20 individuals have been executed by the U.S. state of Nebraska until the 1972 Supreme Court capital punishment ban.
[edit] List of individuals executed in Nebraska after 1976A total of 3 individuals convicted of murder have been executed by the U.S. state of Nebraska since 1976. All were executed by electric chair.
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