Governor Pete Ricketts has suspended any work in his administration to obtain lethal injection drugs or to carry out any executions until the voters decide capital punishment in Nebraska.
Ricketts has been frustrated in his attempts to secure the drugs needed for lethal injection. He says he will drop his efforts. . .

Ricketts says he is unsure whether the state can get a refund for the 54-Thousand dollars it paid a foreign broker for drugs the federal government has prohibited from entering the country.

Ricketts says it is only appropriate to suspend such activities until the voters speak. . .

A referendum petition drive placed the issue on the November ballot next year.