Papillion State Senator Bill Kintner is taking heat for posting a photograph which appears to show a beheaded young woman on his Facebook page. That post was deleted Wednesday night.

In the post Sen. Kintner wrote "the point is if [the beheading] happened for whatever reason in Nebraska, we do not have a death penalty to deal with it."

He said he did not know if the image was real or doctored.

The post was met with mixed reaction, some supporting the argument, others saying the post exploited a tragedy for use as a talking point.

Hours before the image was deleted, Kintner said the page was going to be "cleaned up."

Kintner wrote, "The amount of comments this FB page has gotten in the last week are off the charts and my staff and I do not have the time to police the comments. The longer a thread gets the harder it is to police. I know I am partly to blame by by posting content that pokes folks on the other side of the issues mentioned. For me this FB page is a primary method for communicating with the people of Nebraska and LD 2."

"There are plenty of places online that are appropriate for debating issues, this FB page is just not set up to do that."