{"id":1481,"date":"2015-05-28T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2015-05-28T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T15:03:31","slug":"nebraskas-death-penalty-is-repealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/28\/nebraskas-death-penalty-is-repealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska&#8217;s death penalty is repealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Forty years of work, piles of research, conversations and debate finally brought results Wednesday afternoon for the senator from Omaha&#8217;s near north side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter how many other things I have achieved while here, had I not gotten the death penalty repealed I would have felt it was a failure,&#8221; Sen. Ernie Chambers told reporters after a historic vote that saw 29 colleagues give just enough support to override a Republican governor&#8217;s veto of his bill (LB268) that repealed the state&#8217;s death penalty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/legislature\/debate-begins-on-death-penalty-bill-override\/article_e2ee72ab-cfe2-548c-b0f7-8a3ccf3b05fa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s near north side. \u201cNo matter how many other things I have achieved while here, had I not gotten the death penalty repealed I would have felt it was a failure,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/28\/nebraskas-death-penalty-is-repealed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nebraska&#8217;s death penalty is repealed<\/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\/1481"}],"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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}