Talk:Capital punishment in Nebraska

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charles starkwheater was also executed in nebraska

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Who screwed with this page? While it's nice that we get a pic of Nebraska's Electric Chair and some additional info, I had put in all the execution info from the first all the way to to Starkweather. And my post and everyone else's posts on this page seem to have been erased, what's the deal? MrNWA4Life70.8.117.19 (talk) 07:47, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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I found that my posts weren't erased afterall, but on a different page. Now, just cause Nebraska no longer uses electrocution, why remove the pic of the chair? MrNWA4Life 03:30, 22 June 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.8.165.230 (talk)

Effectively stayed
The following sentence needs rewording for clarification. I can't really think of a terse way to reword it better, though, Any suggestions? "Executions in Nebraska will be effectively stayed until a new method of capital punishment is adopted by the state legislature." CopaceticThought (talk) 17:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Recent Addition
Since someone had listed the victims and the sitting Governors in the 3 post 1976 executions I decided to do the same with the pre 1976 executions. I listed all the Governors, but finding victims names has been impossible. I've only been able to find out victims names for 10 of the first 34 executions. Interesting that I've found where several of the pre 1903 executions were carried out and where many were buried. It's just been impossible to find victims names. MrNWA4Life 15:27, 28 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.41.11.183 (talk)

Just added in victims names from the first hanging, all the way through Starkweather. There are some not added because I couldn't get any actual names. Some like William Rhea, he murdered a bartender in a saloon in Dodge County, and Thomas Johnson, who murdered a drinking buddy in Omaha. One thing of interest, the first man electrocuted was not Allison Cole. Allison was not even the man's name. The man's name was Alson Cole, and he was actually the second man electrocuted in the only double electrocution. Now I have to go back and add the most helpful link that gave the victims names. MrNWA4Life 19:00, 17 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.41.223.41 (talk)

Current Event
Now that the death penalty will be on the ballot in Nebraska, this page will likely be visited by many voters doing research. Since this is a now a current event and there is incentive for both sides to add updates slanted in their favor, I recommend that the facts on the page be updated and finalized and that the page be frozen from edits until November of 2016. As someone with a vested interest in one side of that debate, I shouldn't and won't be involved in making any changes but, I think it's important that it continues to read like an encyclopedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.121.104.234 (talk) 03:56, 27 August 2015 (UTC)


 * While I applaud your commitment not be involved in changes to the page, it's not really appropriate to pre-emptively lock a page of the encyclopedia, on the presumption that bad things are coming. The system here works pretty well, if the page becomes a battleground, it will be locked from edits as needed. Anastrophe (talk) 04:23, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

The reason I brought it up is that I removed some very politically biased content from the page the other day, that had been added recently. You're right that it doesn't necessarily need to be locked until it becomes a problem but, I think it's pretty much inevitable that it will become a problem very soon. I just want someone to be keeping an eye on it. -Thanks

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