Nebraska carries out the country's first execution using fentanyl
Source: Washington Post
By Mark Berman
August 14 at 12:26 PM
Authorities in Nebraska on Tuesday morning used the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out a death sentence, an unprecedented move that came as the state — which just three years ago briefly abolished capital punishment — completed a remarkable reversal and resumed executions for the first time in nearly a generation.
Nebraska experienced a series of firsts Tuesday morning: the state’s first execution in 21 years, its first lethal injection and the country’s first death sentence carried out with fentanyl, which has helped drive the opioid epidemic. The execution was even more unusual considering the state’s very recent history, which saw its legislature abolish the death penalty in 2015 before voters reversed that decision the following year.
At the center of this was Carey Dean Moore, the 60-year-old inmate executed Tuesday after spending more than half his life on death row. Moore was sentenced to death for killing two Omaha cabdrivers in 1979. He said before the execution he did not intend to stop it or want anyone else to intervene, to his lawyer’s evident chagrin.
Nebraska had scheduled Moore’s execution to begin at 10 a.m. local time at the state penitentiary in Lincoln, the capital. The first of the four drugs used by Nebraska was injected into Moore at 10:24 a.m and the coroner announced his time of death at 10:47 a.m., corrections officials said.
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