{"id":182833,"date":"2015-05-28T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/28\/and-the-veto-is-overridden\/"},"modified":"2015-05-28T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T23:52:00","slug":"and-the-veto-is-overridden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/28\/and-the-veto-is-overridden\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Veto is Overridden\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nebraska legislature just overrode the Governor&#8217;s veto, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/nebraska-lawmakers-pass-bill-abolishing-states-death-penalty-1432761569\">the state has abolished the death penalty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nebraska on Wednesday became the seventh state since 2007 to scrap the death penalty, the latest sign of weakening support for capital punishment in statehouses across the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The move was driven by a bipartisan group of legislators, who argued that the death penalty had grown inefficient and ineffective. Nebraska hadn\u2019t executed anyone since 1997, and until recently had struggled to get the drugs needed to carry out executions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Tuesday, Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts\u2014who lobbied to retain capital punishment in the state\u2014vetoed a bill that would make a life sentence the stiffest available criminal penalty in the state.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But Wednesday afternoon, the state\u2019s legislative house voted 30-19 to override the governor\u2019s veto.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sixteen Republicans joined with 13 Democrats and one independent in support of the override. All 19 votes in support of Mr. Ricketts\u2019 veto were lodged by Republicans.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was surprised at the initial vote, and I am surprised at the override, but it&#8217;s a good kind of surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nebraska legislature just overrode the Governor&#8217;s veto, so the state has abolished the death penalty: Nebraska on Wednesday became the seventh state since 2007 to scrap the death penalty, the latest sign of weakening support for capital punishment in statehouses across the country.The move was driven by a bipartisan group of legislators, who argued &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1138,1020,978,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-penalty","category-legislation","category-politics","category-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}