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The first execution in Nebraska reportedly was of Cyrus Tator, a former Kansas Legislature member and judge in Lykins County, Kansas who was tried and convicted of murdering his business partner in 1863. Before 1903, counties carried out executions until the state took over. Since Nebraska statehood in 1867, a total of 14 people have been executed.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Nebraska. In 2015, the state legislature voted to repeal the death penalty, overriding governor Pete Ricketts ' veto. However, a petition drive secured enough signatures to suspend the repeal until a public vote. In the November 2016 general election, voters rejected the repeal measure ...
August 27, 1979 (Helgeland) Carey Dean Moore (October 26, 1957 – August 14, 2018) was a convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection by the state of Nebraska. It was the first execution in Nebraska using lethal injection, and the state's first execution since 1997. [1] [2] The execution was the first in the United States to use fentanyl.
Carey Moore, 60, was put to death at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln using a lethal injection that included fentanyl. Nebraska carries out its first execution since 1997 Skip to main ...
Charles Starkweather. Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) [2] was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. [3] He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest.
Nebraska State Penitentiary. Harold Lamont "Walkin' Wili" Otey (August 1, 1951 – September 2, 1994) was an American criminal convicted of the 1977 rape and murder of Jane McManus, a 26-year-old photography student, in Omaha, Nebraska. [1] [2] Despite recanting his confession and maintaining his innocence for more than 15 years, [3] Otey ...
List of people executed by the District of Columbia. List of people executed in Florida. List of people executed in Georgia. List of people executed in Idaho. List of people executed in Illinois. List of people executed in Indiana. List of people executed in Iowa. List of people executed in Kansas.
John Joseph Joubert IV (July 2, 1963 – July 17, 1996) was an American serial killer executed in Nebraska. He was convicted of murdering three boys: one in Maine , and two in Nebraska . Childhood [ edit ]