Don Stenberg on Crime

Republican Senate challenger (NE)

Supports "stand-your-ground" self-defense laws

The candidates all declared their support for such conservative platforms as federal spending reductions and repeal of the national health care reform law. They also all stated support for stand-your-ground self-defense laws, which give people latitude to use deadly force rather than retreat from danger. That type of law has been much discussed following the February fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida. Source: Lincoln Journal Star on 2012 Nebraska Senate Debates , Apr 13, 2012

Supports mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws

Stenberg was a vocal proponent of a Nebraska crime measure which included a mandatory, 25-year prison sentences for people convicted of a third violent crime - a “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” provision. Source: Omaha World Herald, May 25, 1995 , Sep 26, 2000

Supports the death penalty

As Nebraska Attorney, Stenberg argued that the state’s supreme court should send a retarded, three-time convicted murderer to the electric chair. The high court rejected request to reinstate Clarence Victor’s death penalty. Stenberg had argued that a 1998 law that removed Victor from death row was unconstitutional. Source: Omaha World-Herald, June 30, 2000 , Sep 26, 2000

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