May 29, 2015
Sidney’s Picks: How Nebraska Abolished its Death Penalty

Photo credit:
The Nebraska Legislative Chamber, by Jimmy Emerson, DVM, Creative Commons.
The best of the week’s news
- Don’t look now, but…a bunch of conservatives just abolished the death penalty in Nebraska.
- The other FIFA scandal: Slave labor.
- Police in Kentucky ship a mentally ill man to Florida, illegally. The latest from Sidney-winner R.J. Dunlop.
- How the participatory defense movement is empowering communities to navigate the criminal justice system.