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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring legal issues in the news. And Today,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law host Greg's Store and Michael Best discussed voter

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Speaker 1: decisions over the death penalty in Oklahoma and Nebraska, which

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Speaker 1: voted on capital punishment on Tuesday. They speak with Robert Dunham,

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Speaker 1: executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Rob the

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Speaker 1: story in Nebraska seems pretty remarkable that a you know,

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Speaker 1: the legislature had outlawed the death penalty and now the

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Speaker 1: voters have brought it back. How did this happen so quickly? Well,

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Speaker 1: Nebraska is a is a kind of special case. It

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Speaker 1: was the first state in which a predominantly conservative legislature

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Speaker 1: voted to abolish the death penalty. Um then their veto

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Speaker 1: their repeal was vetoed by Governor Ricketts, and it became

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Speaker 1: the first time in American history that a legislature of

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Speaker 1: the same party as a governor overrode that governor's veto

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Speaker 1: to abolish the death penalty. As a result of that

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Speaker 1: we had two different things going on. One was the

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Speaker 1: governor trying to regain some political prestige because he had

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Speaker 1: had two other vetos overridden by his own party members UH,

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Speaker 1: and he chose the death penalty as the issue in

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Speaker 1: which to stake on which the state is political prestige. Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: which is a state that, unlike California Nebraska, has been

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Speaker 1: actively executing people, are at least attempting to UH tell

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Speaker 1: us about the initiative there in Oklahoma. UM. The Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: death penalty process was under court attack after the botched

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Speaker 1: execution of Clayton Lockett. UH. The United States Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: granted review of death row prisoners challenges to Oklahoma's method

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Speaker 1: of execution, and while that case, called gloss Of versus Gross,

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Speaker 1: was pending before the court, the legislature passed the bill

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Speaker 1: to put on the ballot a measure that would constitutionalize

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Speaker 1: they're already existing power to adopt different methods of execution

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Speaker 1: if prior methods were declared unconstitutional, but also to remove

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Speaker 1: from the state courts the power to declare the death

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Speaker 1: penalty cruel and unusual punishment, and to remove the power

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Speaker 1: in individual cases to say that the death penalty violated

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Speaker 1: the state constitution and as Robert Dunam, Executive director of

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Speaker 1: the Death Penalty Information Center, speaking with the Greg's Store

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