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Nebraska lawmakers consider changes to state's execution process, nitrogen hypoxia bill

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Nebraska lawmakers consider changes to state's execution process, nitrogen hypoxia bill

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Sen. Loren Lippincott of Central City (left) talks with Sen. John Lowe of Kearney at the Capitol in January. Lippincott introduced a bill this year (LB970) that would allow Nebraska to execute death row inmates using nitrogen hypoxia. 

JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star file photo

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Adam Billie-Gomez, 3, of Scottsbluff. Adam, the son of Patricia Gomez, was killed by Mata and dismembered in December 1999. Parts of his body were found in a freezer and a dog bowl, and bone fragments belonging to him were found in Mata's dog's stomach. Killing and dismembering 3-year-old Adam Gomez of Scottsbluff in 1999 and feeding some of his remains to a dog.

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Jose Sandoval

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Crime: He shot and killed bank employees Jo Mausbach and Samuel Sun and customer Evonne Tuttle during a 2002 bank robbery attempt in Norfolk.

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Lola Elwood, 43, of Norfolk, assistant branch manager at U.S. Bank for 14 years**.** Elwood was shot and killed by Galindo during the botched robbery on Sept. 26, 2002. She was married and the mother of two children. She was said to have loved crafts, sewing, music and taking care of her family.

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Erick F. Vela

ERICK F. VELA

Crime: 2002 Norfolk bank robbery; he shot and killed Lisa Bryant, a bank employee.

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Jeffrey Hessler

JEFFREY HESSLER

VICTIM: Heather Guerrero, 15, of Gering. Heather was a newspaper carrier who was kidnapped, raped and shot in the head by Hessler in February 2003. Her body was found in an abandoned farmhouse.

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John L. Lotter

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Brandon Teena, 21, of Lincoln. The transgender man was killed in 1993 near Humboldt by Lotter and Marvin Nissen. They killed Teena to silence him after he told police the two men had raped him. He was shot twice in the head and stabbed. 

Philip Devine, 22, of Fairfield, Iowa, died in 1993. John Lotter was convicted of shooting Devine twice in the head because he witnessed the killing of Teena.

Lisa Lambert, 24, of rural Humboldt, a nurse's aide. She died in 1993. Lotter was convicted of killing Lambert, a single mother of a 9-month-old boy, because she witnessed the murder of Teena, who was staying in the one-story farmhouse Lambert rented.

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Roy L. Ellis

ROY L. ELLIS

Crime: the 2005 abduction and bludgeoning death of 12-year-old Amber Harris of Omaha.

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Marco E. Torres Jr.

MARCO E. TORRES JR.

Crime: the 2007 execution-style shooting deaths of two Grand Island men, Timothy Donohue and Edward Hall.

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Anthony Garcia

ANTHONY GARCIA

Crime: 2008 murders of 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman, and 2013 murders of 65-year-old Dr. Roger Brumback and 65-year-old Mary Brumback.

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Nikko Jenkins

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Crime: four murders during a 2013 killing spree in Omaha.

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Aubrey Trail 

Crime: the 2017 abduction and slaying of Lincoln store clerk Sydney Loofe.

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