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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.
Stephen D. Richards [13] [14] [15] or Samuel D. Richards [3] [4] (March 18, 1856 – April 26, 1879), also known in the media as The Nebraska Fiend, Kearney County Murderer, and The Ohio Monster, was an American serial killer who confessed to committing a total of nine murders [a] in Nebraska and Iowa between 1876 and 1878.
Gordon Cummins (1942) known as "the Blackout Ripper". Sarah Dazley (1843) known as "the Potton Poisoner". Williamina "Minnie" Dean (1895) only woman executed in New Zealand. Westley Allan Dodd (1993) first post- Gregg execution in Washington. Martin Dumollard (1862) known as "the Monster of Montluel".
L. List of people executed in Nebraska. Categories: Deaths by execution in the United States by state. Prisoners sentenced to death by Nebraska. Capital punishment in Nebraska. Prisoners who died in Nebraska detention.