Pro-death penalty group raised, spent more than $900K on petition drive to put issue before voters

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joe Duggan

LINCOLN — The organization that successfully collected signatures for a voter referendum on Nebraska’s death penalty raised and spent more than $900,000 on its petition drive.

A group that opposes capital punishment, meanwhile, collected and spent about half as much to combat the petition drive.

Nebraskans for the Death Penalty raised $261,000 from July 28 to Sept. 21, according to a report filed Monday with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission. The sum was on top of the $652,000 it had raised earlier.

The largest donors during the most recent reporting period were the Judicial Crisis Network and Robert Mercer, who gave $100,000 each.

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