Nebraska executes inmate using powerful opioid fentanyl
Share
Tweet
August 15, 2018
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska carried out its first execution in more than two decades on Tuesday with a drug combination never tried before, including the first use of the powerful opioid fentanyl in a lethal injection.
Carey Dean Moore, 60, was pronounced dead at 10:47 a.m. Moore had been sentenced to death for killing two cab drivers in Omaha in 1979. He was the first inmate to be lethally injected in Nebraska, which last carried out an execution in 1997, using the electric chair.
Witnesses said there appeared to be no complications in the execution process, which also was the first time a...
For access to this article please
sign in or
subscribe.
Reader Comments(0)