OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man sentenced to death for the killing and dismemberment of a Lincoln woman he met through the dating app Tinder lost his initial appeal in which he argued he should have been granted a mistrial after violently disrupting his own trial.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by a handful of Creighton University students who sought to be exempt from the private Catholic school’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate last year, arguing that getting the shots would violate their religious beliefs against abortion.
LINCOLN — The man now in line to be the first Nebraska death row inmate executed by lethal injection says he will fight the state’s efforts to put him to death.
Jose Sandoval said in letters mailed to The World-Herald that defense lawyers “sought me out” shortly after prison officials formally notified Sandoval on Nov.