Monday, January 29, 2024

Omaha and Lincoln, if you're wondering

Inspired by the example of that harbinger of tomorrow, Alabama, Nebraska State Senator Loren Lippincott has introduced legislation to make asphyxiation with nitrogen an Official Nebraska State Method of Execution. Senator Lippincott represents a place called Central City, which unless I am very much mistaken was also home to the Flash back in the 1960s. It is just a bit more than a two hour drive from Bellevue, the third biggest city in Nebraska and the second largest city in the U.S. named Bellevue. Is thinking up better ways to kill people a normal part of a Nebraska legislator’s job?

1 comment:

Crotchety Dave said...

Well, it depends on how you define "normal". It's a function that's relegated to the special select committee on killing people so only a subset of legislators actually work on it. It's a sought after committee assigned by some legislators. Oddly, the committee is never staffed bi-partisan.