From the Lincoln Journal Star:
Forty years of work, piles of research, conversations and debate finally brought results Wednesday afternoon for the senator from Omaha’s near north side.
“No matter how many other things I have achieved while here, had I not gotten the death penalty repealed I would have felt it was a failure,” Sen. Ernie Chambers told reporters after a historic vote that saw 29 colleagues give just enough support to override a Republican governor’s veto of his bill (LB268) that repealed the state’s death penalty.