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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 ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Nebraska since its statehood.. Before 1903. 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.
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.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Latest on Nebraska's first execution since 1997 (all times local):
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution of Nebraska death-row inmate Carey Dean Moore (all times local):
Nebraska prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty in the December killing of a Catholic priest inside his home but will pursue execution in the brutal killing of a retiree during a ...
Nikko Jenkins. Nikko Allen Jenkins (sometimes spelled Nicholas on first name; born September 16, 1986) descendant of an Omaha Chief. [1] is an American spree killer convicted of committing four murders in Omaha, Nebraska, in August 2013. The murders occurred within a month after he had been released from prison after serving 10-and-a-half years ...
Imprisoned at. Tecumseh State Correctional Institution, Tecumseh, Nebraska. Anthony Joseph Garcia (born June 7, 1973 [1]) is an American serial killer and former medical doctor who was convicted of two separate double murders, committed in 2008 and 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska. Garcia was arrested in July 2013 and went to trial in October 2016.