Former Gov. Heineman says state never gave up on the death penalty

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — Former Gov. Dave Heineman rejected the contention that Nebraska put the brakes on the death penalty during the last years of his administration.

In an article in Sunday’s World-Herald, Kirk Brown, the longtime capital punishment specialist in the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, said he was told four years ago to not pursue changing the state’s lethal injection protocol, a change that could have restored the state’s ability to carry out the death penalty.

That decision, Brown said, effectively put a hold on executions in Nebraska.

But in a Monday email to The World-Herald, Heineman said his administration never let up on the issue.

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Read more: http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/former-gov-heineman-says-state-never-gave-up-on-the/article_b4fe254e-da91-57ab-8822-534a0740a2dc.html

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Nebraska officials stopped the state's top death penalty prosecutor from pursuing executions: http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/nebraska-officials-stopped-the-state-s-top-death-penalty-prosecutor/article_2381dcbb-8045-54b1-b2b7-58e6696b670e.html

[blackspade]

1. Another pro-deather...

Figures.