Norma Fleisher’s is also a conversion story. She supported the death penalty until 1999, when she ministered to prisoners on Tennessee’s death row. On her return to Nebraska, she became one of the hardest working supporters of repeal, driving more than 4,000 miles through every Nebraska county to talk about the death penalty to anyone who would listen and standing vigil at the Governor’s mansion every week. She became an inspiration for Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty’s Stacy Anderson (with whom she is pictured on the left), as well as for Senator Morfeld, who dedicated his repeal vote to her.
Norma passed away last October, more than six months before she could witness Nebraska as a death penalty-free state. Those who knew her are sure she was cheering from “a gallery far above.”
