Gov. Ricketts gives another $100,000 — for a total of $300,000 — to pro-death penalty group

LINCOLN — Gov. Pete Ricketts has given another $100,000 to a group working to preserve the death penalty in Nebraska, but opponents of capital punishment have raised far more dollars overall.

Retain a Just Nebraska said Tuesday in financial disclosures that it has collected $2.7 million during its two-year campaign to keep the Nebraska Legislature’s repeal of the death penalty. On its list of contributors are the campaigns of six state senators who voted for the repeal and Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon.

Sarandon, who portrayed an anti-death penalty activist nun in the film “Dead Man Walking,” gave $500.

The tally for Nebraskans for the Death Penalty, the group backed by the governor, stands at about $1.2 million.

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