The Lethal Injection Debate

With the Unicameral taking up the debate over the changing of the death penalty from electrocution to lethal injection or to just get rid of the death penalty. It behooves us too look at how we got to this point. The State Supreme Court showed extreme judicial activism in this instance. The State Supreme Court took up a case in which all appeals had been with drawn by the defendant. Which means that the Court took a case that was not even up on appeal.
The State Constitution does not allow the State Supreme Court this power. There is no wording any where in the State Constitution that the State Court could rely upon in justify taking this case and or giving a decision on it. The is made up of seven appointees of former Governor and current U.S. Senator Ben Nelson. This activism of the State Supreme Court should leave lovers of the constitution state and federal disgusted.
Now we move to the legislature this is the priority of the state speaker and it is with great hope that the legislature does the just thing. Pass the bill and have lethal injection as the mode of execution in this state which will not only serve justice to the families of the victims. But it will hopefully send a message to the State Supreme Court that activism will be met with a legislative branch that will keep the court on the straight and narrow.