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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Nebraska since its statehood. Post-Gregg. Four people convicted of murder have been executed by Nebraska since 1976. Three were executed by electrocution. On April 21, 2011, the Nebraska Supreme Court set the first execution date via lethal injection for June 14, 2011.
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 ...
John McCaffary (1851) – Hanging. The hanging was initially unsuccessful and he strangled for approximately 20 minutes. [citation needed] John Tapner (1854) – Hanging. The rope did not break his neck, and he died from strangulation after hanging for 12 minutes. [6] James Stephens (1860) – Hanging by upright jerker.
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.
List of death row inmates in the United States. As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
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.
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.