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Buster Gammons















Wednesday, May 27, 2015

"I Wanna Kill People,Too!"


"I'm so excited by the death penalty!"
Last week, Nebraska state legislators easily approved a bipartisan bill to repeal the state's death penalty.  Their decision reflects growing public opinion on this issue across the country.  Yesterday, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R - of course) vetoed the bill.

Ricketts claimed the death penalty was a matter of "public safety" (but could offer no evidence that capital punishment makes anyone safer).  He said that repeal of the death penalty would make Nebraska appear "soft on crime".   (Yeah, can't have that.  Hordes of previously-deterred wanna-be murderers were ready to flock to the newly-squishy Cornhusker State until Ricketts got tough.)

What a crock!  Ricketts just wants to kill some people legally.  Believes it gives him gubernatorial gravitas:  "We've been executing people in Nebraska since 1867, and goddam it, I want my turn!"  What a bastard.

The state legislature will now try to come up with enough votes to overturn the governor's veto.  We shall see.    
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