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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Nebraska since its statehood. Before 1903 [ edit ] 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. [1]
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 ...
List of people executed by the United States military. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction § United States. List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976. List of women executed in the United States since 1976. List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim.
Stephen D. Richards (1879) known as "the Nebraska Fiend", first execution in the State of Nebraska; Ion Rîmaru (1971) known as "the Vampire of Bucharest" Daniel Rolling (2006) known as "the Gainesville Ripper" Michael Bruce Ross (2005) first post-Gregg execution in Connecticut and last execution in Connecticut
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.
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.
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 ...