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Nebraska District 40 Candidates on Crime & Punishment

Nebraska District 40 Candidates on Crime & Punishment

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Crime and punishment will be issues for the 2019 Nebraska legislature.

Tim Gragert of Creighton is running for the District 40 Senate seat in northern Nebraska. He says he supports the use of the death penalty…

Nebraska executed Corey Dean Moore in August, after a gap of twenty one years in using the death penalty.

Keith Kube of Crofton, the other candidate in the District 40 race, says he also supports use of the death penalty….

The population in the Nebraska prison system has reached over one hundred fifty percent of capacity. Gragert says the prison issue starts years before an inmate in sentenced…

Kube says prisons are looked upon as economic development for the towns they are located in….

Both men are running for a four-year term to replace incumbent Senator Tyson Larson of O’Neill, who is term limited.

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