LINCOLN (AP) — A bill being heard by the Legislature's Judiciary Committee would reinstate a sentence of life without the parole for some killers that was deemed unconstitutional by the Nebraska Supreme Court in 2005.
In that ruling, the state's high court said state lawmakers went too far in a 2002 special session that changed the minimum penalty for first-degree murder to life in prison without parole.
Lexington Sen. John Wightman's bill (LB13) would enact into law during the current regular session the "life without parole" provision for Class I felonies, when the death penalty is not applied.
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