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Updated: 10:40 AM Nov 13, 2006
Attempt At Wisconsin Death Penalty Taken Off Legislative Agenda
November Election's Advisory Referendum Was Approved By Voters Posted: 10:38 AM Nov 13, 2006 |
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A majority of voters in Wisconsin back the death penalty.
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But Senator Alan Lasee says it won't be enough to make it a law after Democrats made gains in the Legislature.
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Democrats will take over the Wisconsin Senate and narrowed the gap in the Assembly.
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The Republican senator has been a longtime supporter of the death penalty. More than 55% of voters in last week's election approved the advisory referendum. It imposes the death penalty for first-degree intentional homicide in cases for which there is DNA evidence. Wisconsin was the first state in the union to abolish the death penalty in 1854. There hasn't been the death penalty in the state since.
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Lasee says the vote is a good first step, but he's not sure where it's going. However, incoming Democratic senate leaders say the death penalty will not be on the docket in the upcoming legislative session.
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