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| Nebraska becomes the first state to use the opioid fentanyl in an execution |
| By post-gazette.com- Mark Berman |
| Published: 08/15/2018 |
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Authorities in Nebraska used the powerful opioid fentanyl in a lethal injection on Tuesday, an unprecedented move that came as the state - where just three years ago lawmakers moved to abolish capital punishment - completed a remarkable reversal and resumed executions for the first time in nearly a generation. Nebraska experienced a series of firsts on 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, a synthetic painkiller that has helped drive the opioid epidemic. The execution was even more unusual given the state’s very recent history, which saw its legislature vote to abandon 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 after spending more than half his life on death row. Moore was sentenced to death for killing Reuel Van Ness and Maynard Helgeland, two Omaha cabdrivers, in 1979. He said before his execution that he would not try to stop it, nor did he want anyone to intervene. Read More. |
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