“I’m sure small-town, rural Nebraska communities are furious about the repeal,” said 20-something Nebraskan Chris Spargen of the repeal of capital punishment.
Indeed, what with all the manure in the air nothing makes rural Americans angrier than NOT putting people in shackles and dragging them down the way to be put to death. Perhaps we should forgo the shackles and just make them carry their own execution tables. Well that help get the message across to them? Probably not.
For obvious reasons, Americans do not want to hear that capital punishment is the defining moral issue of humanity, though it is.
What happened in the hard red state of Nebraska to get enough votes in the legislature to override governor Pete Ricketts, once CEO of Ameritrade and a Catholic – drooling to execute people with his 4th veto of the bill? Nebraska Bans Death Penalty, Defying a Veto
What caused so many Republicans to cross the isle to join Democrats in this historic vote – the first conservative state in 40 years to put executions to rest – to join such liberal states as Maryland, Connecticut, Illinois, New Mexico and New Jersey who since 2007 have done the same?.
We now have 19 states joining the civilized world in this matter with more to gradually move toward civilization until the only states left dragging people down hallways to be put to death will be, you know, those same 13 or so states we know only too well covered in Jesus, Kudzu and white gravy.
What happen in Nebraska is that a soft spoken black independent legislator spend 40 years of his life fighting to put an end to the indignity of capital punishment – state Senator Bernie Chambers – who is shown above celebrating with Republican Senator Kathy Campbell. Hear Here!