New lawsuit says death penalty ballot language 'unlawfully misleading,' 'unfairly slanted'

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — An anti-death penalty group has filed a second lawsuit against a petition drive seeking to place a referendum on capital punishment before voters in 2016.

Nebraskans for Public Safety said Monday in a press release that the proposed ballot language is “unlawfully misleading” and “unfairly slanted,” and must be changed.

The plaintiff named in the lawsuit, defense attorney Lyle Koenig of Beatrice, said the language, drafted by Attorney General Doug Peterson, inaccurately states that life in prison would be the “maximum” sentence allowable if the death penalty is not restored.

Koenig said that life in prison would be the only penalty allowed for first-degree murder if capital punishment is abolished.

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[COLGATE4]

1. Seems like it was clearly designed - and written

to deceive the voters into believing that a person convicted of capital murder might also receive a sentence of less than life imprisonment. Too damn cute by half.

[marble falls]

2. Life sentences with no parole is a chickenshit version of death sentences. Life sentences without...

parole ARE death sentences.