Nebraska Supreme Court finds the electric chair unconstitutionally "cruel and unusual".

The Nebraska Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision in State V. Mata, 275 Neb. 1 (2008), that "appalled" Governor David Heineman, who painted the court as "this activist court [which] has ignored its own precedent and the precedent set by the U.S. Supreme Court to continue its assault on the Nebraska death penalty", found the state's ONLY method of executions (by the electric chair) was unconstitutionally "cruel and unusual" and "more befitting the laboratory of Baron Frankenstein than the death chamber in Nebraska".

The Nebraska Unicameral will have until April to pass another law sanctioning another method of execution. Chances are, though, that Nebraska will opt to abolish the death penalty. Other attempts to do so have ONLY narrowly defeated.

The lone dissenter in the case, the Chief Justice, is my former boss, who hired me in my FIRST real job.