{"id":1435,"date":"2015-03-12T08:02:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2015-03-12T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:02:16","slug":"bill-to-repeal-death-penalty-headed-to-full-unicameral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/12\/bill-to-repeal-death-penalty-headed-to-full-unicameral\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to repeal death penalty headed to full Unicameral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\" target=\"_blank\">Omaha World-Herald<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LINCOLN \u2014 For likely the first time ever, a Nebraska legislative committee has given unanimous support to repealing the death penalty.\u00a0On an 8-0 vote Monday, March 9, the Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to repeal capital punishment for debate by the full Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, who has made ending the death penalty his top priority during four decades in office, said that 2015 presents as good a chance as ever to \u201cget this state out of the killing business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleven other senators, including three or four who could be described as conservative Republicans, have signed on as co-sponsors to the repeal proposal, Legislative Bill 268.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/news\/legislature\/bill-to-repeal-death-penalty-headed-to-legislature-floor-ernie\/article_ce2de3db-c97d-5118-ae1c-148c56913f2c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also read <a href=\"http:\/\/nadp.net\/death-penalty-info\/the-case-for-repeal\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Case for Repeal<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/nadp.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha World-Herald: LINCOLN \u2014 For likely the first time ever, a Nebraska legislative committee has given unanimous support to repealing the death penalty.\u00a0On an 8-0 vote Monday, March 9, the Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to repeal capital punishment for debate by the full Legislature. State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, who has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/12\/bill-to-repeal-death-penalty-headed-to-full-unicameral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill to repeal death penalty headed to full Unicameral<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[11,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}