Richardson County News

Conservatives and Tea Party groups in recent weeks have come out stridently against Republican Senate candidate Jon Bruning primarily for two reasons.

A Nebraska court won't consider a death row inmate's appeal raising questions about the state's new lethal injection method and how the drugs needed for it were obtained.

The Nebraska Supreme Court stayed the execution of Michael Ryan on Thursday, less than two weeks before he was to be the state's first condemned inmate put to death by lethal injection.

BEATRICE, Neb. - A prosecutor asked a judge Thursday to dismiss a recent appeal by Nebraska death row inmate Michael Ryan, alleging it consists of "sensational hyperbole" and "false facts." Richardson County District Judge Daniel Bryan took the matter under advisement after a short hearing at the courthouse in Beatrice.

Michael Ryan claims the state intends to carry out the lethal injection using a stolen Swiss drug that fails to meet U.S. purity standards.