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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. [5] Before 1903, counties carried out executions until the state took over. Since Nebraska statehood in 1867, a total of 14 people have been ...
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 ...
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.
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. [3][4]
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 ...
Stephen D. Richards[b] (March 18, 1856 – April 26, 1879), also known in the media as The Nebraska Fiend[3][9] and The Ohio Monster, [10] was an American serial killer who confessed to committing a total of nine to eleven murders in Nebraska and Iowa between 1876 and 1878. Richards was born in West Virginia (then part of Virginia) in 1856.
August 22, 1982 – December 2, 1983. Country. United States. State (s) Maine and Nebraska. Date apprehended. January 12, 1984. 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.
François Ravaillac (1610) assassination of King Henry IV of France. Nikolai Rysakov (1881) assassination of Alexander II. Petr Shevyrev (1887) conspiracy to assassinate Alexander III. Beant Singh (1989) assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Kehar Singh (1989) assassination of Indira Gandhi.