Killing it
Nebraska’s ban is another sign of the decline in support for the death penalty
“WE WOULD have ended any other government programmes that inefficient and costly a long time ago,” says Colby Coash, a Republican lawmaker in Nebraska. Mr Coash is one of 32 legislators in Nebraska’s unicameral parliament who, in a bipartisan effort, voted for a bill to ban the death penalty. On May 26th Pete Ricketts, the Republican governor, vetoed the proposed bill, but a day later the state house overrode his veto.
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