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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNebraska overrides veto of Death Penalty
This is a huge victory - Congrats all - one more tea party governor gets what the duck gets - fugged!!! :applause
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Nebraska overrides veto of Death Penalty (Original Post)
malaise
May 2015
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Astonishing but welcome news
Maybe the day is not far off when the United States puts this barbarity firmly in the past, not to be brought back ever again.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)2. Veto of death penalty repeal, that is n/t
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)3. Excellent news.
peecoolyour
(336 posts)4. 19 down, 31 to go.
Can't wait until it's 50 and the doors of Corrections Corporation of America, the GEO Group, Inc., and Community Education Centers are a padlocked and on their way to becoming a distant memory.
msongs
(67,405 posts)5. for profit prisons will lose $$ if prisoners are executed nt