LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) – On today 10 years in the past, Nebraska was the primary state to make use of opioid fentanyl in an execution.
This was used within the execution of Carey Dean Moore. The 60-year-old spent greater than half his life on dying row for the killing of two cab drivers in Omaha in 1979.
Moore’s execution was carried out on the State Penitentiary in Lincoln, the primary in 21 years.
Executions have been an issue of some debate in Nebraska, having been repealed in 2015 and voters reinstating it a yr later.
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