Jon Bruning on Crime

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 12, 2012

End parole for repeat violent offenders

End parole for repeat violent offenders.
Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
Inform communities when a convicted sex offender moves into the community.
Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational & job-related skills.
Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.

Source: Nebraska State 2000 National Political Awareness Test , Nov 1, 2000

Supports death penalty by lethal injection in Nebraska

Support the use of the death penalty in Nebraska.
Implement lethal injection as Nebraska's method of execution.
Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.

Source: Nebraska State 2000 National Political Awareness Test , Nov 1, 2000

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