Nebraska electric chair ruling [NE SC] News
Nebraska electric chair ruling [NE SC]

Nebraska v. Raymond Mata, Jr., Supreme Court of Nebraska, February 8, 2008 [prohibiting execution by electric chair because it represents cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Nebraska constitution]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Archibald Cox fired as Watergate prosecutor in the "Saturday Night Massacre"

On October 20, 1973, Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox at the direction of President Richard Nixon after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus had refused and resigned.