Capital Punishment (trend as far as Death Penalty legislation in U.S. 2015) -- from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly posting

Today (May 27, 2015) the legislature of the state of Nebraska repealed the death penalty, overriding the governor’s veto. http://wapo.st/1LKX00U It is the first conservative state in more than four decades to abolish the death penalty. A group of Nebraska religious leaders called for an end to the death penalty earlier this month at a news conference in Omaha.