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Legislature revisits language for sentencing laws

Story Created: Feb 18, 2011 at 6:30 PM CDT

Story Updated: Feb 18, 2011 at 7:30 PM CDT

Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a measure to clean up language in the state's sentencing laws. In a ruling by the Nebraska Supreme Court, it says state lawmakers went too far in a 2002 special session.

The language stated that the minimum penalty for first-degree murder is life in prison "without parole."

Lexington Senator John Wightman's bill would strike the words "without parole'' from the law.

The bill now goes to a final round of debate.

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