Court Report

Unclear Future for 10 on Nebraska's Death Row

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) - For more than 10 years, John Lotter has faced death in Nebraska's electric chair for the grisly 1993 triple murder that spawned the movie "Boys Don't Cry." But the state Supreme Court made that sentence uncertain for Lotter and the nine other men on death row in its February ruling that electrocution - Nebraska's only means of execution - is cruel and unusual punishment. Lawyers involved in those death-row cases are now asking if an inmate who is sentenced to die in the electric chair can be executed by another means. Read more...
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