Nebraska executes inmate using powerful opioid fentanyl
6 years, 7 months ago

Nebraska executes inmate using powerful opioid fentanyl

Associated Press  

— Nebraska carried out its first execution in more than two decades on Tuesday with a drug combination never tried before, including the first use of the powerful opioid fentanyl in a lethal injection. At one point while on the gurney, Moore turned his head and mouthed several words to his family, including “I love you.” No members of the victims’ families witnessed the execution. In his final written statement, Moore admitted: “I am guilty.” But he said there are others on Nebraska’s death row who he believes are innocent and he said they should be released. Moore’s execution comes a little more than three years after Nebraska lawmakers abolished the death penalty, only to have it reinstated the following year through a citizen ballot drive partially financed by Republican Gov. “We’re sick of hearing about Carey Dean Moore,” Steve Helgeland, one of Maynard Helgeland’s three children, said ahead of the execution.

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Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners
2 years, 9 months ago

Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners

CNN  

CNN — Four days after a federal court ruled against death row inmates arguing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is cruel and unusual, the state’s attorney general asked for more than two dozen executions to be scheduled. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of 28 death row prisoners, named officials with multiple Oklahoma corrections agencies and claimed the injection method causes “constitutionally …

John Grant: Oklahoma puts first inmate to death since 2015, but witness reports he convulsed and vomited during execution
3 years, 5 months ago

John Grant: Oklahoma puts first inmate to death since 2015, but witness reports he convulsed and vomited during execution

CNN  

CNN — An Oklahoma death row inmate who was executed Thursday convulsed and vomited shortly after receiving the first drug, a witness said, in the state’s first execution since it postponed lethal injections years ago for a review. The first drug used in John Grant’s execution was midazolam, a sedative that some states introduced to execution procedures in recent years …

Nebraska court orders disclosure of execution drug records
4 years, 10 months ago

Nebraska court orders disclosure of execution drug records

Associated Press  

— Nebraska prison officials cannot withhold public records that reveal where they purchased their supply of lethal injection drugs, the state’s highest court said Friday in a ruling that could threaten Nebraska’s ability to carry out executions for the dozen men on its death row. Media outlets including The Associated Press, The Omaha World-Herald and The Lincoln Journal Star filed …

Nebraska Carries Out 1st Execution Using Fentanyl In U.S.
6 years, 7 months ago

Nebraska Carries Out 1st Execution Using Fentanyl In U.S.

NPR  

Nebraska Carries Out 1st Execution Using Fentanyl In U.S. Enlarge this image toggle caption Nebraska Department of Correctional Services via AP Nebraska Department of Correctional Services via AP Updated at 1:20 p.m. "This execution of Carey Dean Moore does not comport with Nebraska's proud tradition of open government," Executive Director Danielle Conrad said in a statement. The primary legal challenge …

Nebraska cleared to carry out America’s first fentanyl execution, judge says
6 years, 7 months ago

Nebraska cleared to carry out America’s first fentanyl execution, judge says

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A federal judge rejected …

Nebraska prisons head: State can’t buy execution drugs again
6 years, 7 months ago

Nebraska prisons head: State can’t buy execution drugs again

Associated Press  

— Delaying the execution of a longtime death-row inmate would likely prevent the state from ever carrying out the sentence because officials can’t purchase any more of the necessary lethal injection drugs, Nebraska’s prisons director acknowledged Thursday. Corrections Director Scott Frakes said in a sworn statement that the pharmacy that supplied Nebraska’s current batch of drugs is unwilling to sell …

Drugmaker seeks to block Nebraska from using execution drugs
6 years, 7 months ago

Drugmaker seeks to block Nebraska from using execution drugs

Associated Press  

— A German pharmaceutical company has filed a lawsuit to prevent Nebraska from using lethal injection drugs next week in what would be the state’s first execution in more than two decades. The company, Fresenius Kabi, opposes the use of its drugs in executions and alleges that the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services’ supply of potassium chloride was made by …

Nevada Postpones Planned Execution Using Fentanyl
6 years, 8 months ago

Nevada Postpones Planned Execution Using Fentanyl

NPR  

Nevada Postpones Planned Execution Using Fentanyl Enlarge this image toggle caption Ken Ritter/AP Ken Ritter/AP Convicted murderer Scott Dozier has clearly and repeatedly stated that he wants to be executed. Sponsor Message Department of Corrections Public Information Officer Brooke Santina said in an emailed statement that Dozier's execution "will not take place until further notice." "What we're seeing from the …

Fentanyl bust in Nebraska finds enough doses to kill an estimated 26 million people
6 years, 10 months ago

Fentanyl bust in Nebraska finds enough doses to kill an estimated 26 million people

CNN  

CNN — The Nebraska State Patrol seized nearly 120 pounds of the drug fentanyl – enough to kill about 26 million people, according to estimates by the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Troopers became suspicious of a semi-truck driving on the shoulder lane, searched the vehicle and found drugs in a hidden compartment, according to Nebraska State Patrol Col. John Bolduc. …

States Study Use of Fentanyl as Execution Drug
7 years, 3 months ago

States Study Use of Fentanyl as Execution Drug

Huff Post  

By Christopher Zoukis Faced with pharmaceutical supplier refusals, states are having serious difficulty obtaining the lethal drugs used for current execution protocols, so they are increasingly examining alternatives — including fentanyl, the synthetic drug that is in large part responsible for the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic. The difficulty obtaining chemicals needed for current execution protocols has also led some of …

Federal Appeals Court Paves Way For Ohio To Resume Lethal Injections
7 years, 9 months ago

Federal Appeals Court Paves Way For Ohio To Resume Lethal Injections

NPR  

Federal Appeals Court Paves Way For Ohio To Resume Lethal Injections Enlarge this image toggle caption Kiichiro Sato/AP Kiichiro Sato/AP A federal appeals court paved the way on Wednesday for Ohio to resume executions by lifting a lower court's decision to halt the state's lethal injection process. In that decision, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Michael Merz stated that the …

Nebraska resumes search for lethal injection drug suppliers
8 years, 1 month ago

Nebraska resumes search for lethal injection drug suppliers

Associated Press  

— Nebraska officials have started a new search for lethal injection drugs and are backing a proposal that would allow them to conceal a supplier’s identity after voters reinstated capital punishment last year. His comments came outside of a Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on a proposed shield law that would keep secret the identity of any lethal …

Federal Judge Blocks Ohio's Lethal Injection Protocol
8 years, 2 months ago

Federal Judge Blocks Ohio's Lethal Injection Protocol

NPR  

Federal Judge Blocks Ohio's Lethal Injection Protocol Enlarge this image toggle caption Kiichiro Sato/AP Kiichiro Sato/AP A federal judge in Ohio has rejected the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol on the grounds that one of the drugs, the sedative midazolam, is not sufficiently humane in its effects. After five days of hearings, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Michael Merz blocked …

Some lethal injection problems in US executions
8 years, 3 months ago

Some lethal injection problems in US executions

Associated Press  

Since Texas became the first state to use lethal injection as its execution method on Dec. 7, 1982, some problems have been reported during the process nationwide. Texas inmate Raymond Landry was pronounced dead 40 minutes after being strapped to the execution gurney and 24 minutes after the drugs started flowing into his arms. Indiana inmate Tommie J. Smith’s lethal …

Execution drug shortage makes some think of firing squads
9 years, 5 months ago

Execution drug shortage makes some think of firing squads

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s decision to delay executions another full year while it hunts for lethal injection drugs highlights an ongoing dilemma faced by the remaining death penalty states. “It really underscores the public’s growing distrust and dissatisfaction with state corrections departments being able to administer the death penalty,” Kevin Werner, who leads Ohioans to Stop Executions, said Tuesday. “It …

Oklahoma court stops 3 pending executions after drug glitch
9 years, 6 months ago

Oklahoma court stops 3 pending executions after drug glitch

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s highest criminal court unanimously agreed Friday to halt all of the state’s scheduled executions after its prison system received the wrong drug for a lethal injection this week. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted the state’s request and issued indefinite stays of execution for Richard Glossip, Benjamin Cole and John Grant. Prison officials who opened …

How did Arizona execution go wrong?
10 years, 8 months ago

How did Arizona execution go wrong?

LA Times  

For the third time this year, a state has set out to execute a convicted murderer but found itself unable to cleanly carry out the sentence. The continuing problems have raised questions about whether the nation’s current methods for carrying out capital punishment — a patchwork of drugs, dosages and needle techniques — can result in a humane death. After …

Ohio Will Increase Dosage Of Drugs In Lethal Injection
10 years, 11 months ago

Ohio Will Increase Dosage Of Drugs In Lethal Injection

NPR  

Ohio Will Increase Dosage Of Drugs In Lethal Injection Ohio has concluded that Dennis McGuire did not suffer any pain during his execution last January, the state's Department of Rehabilitation & Correction said Monday. Enlarge this image toggle caption Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction/AP Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction/AP McGuire was executed using a new cocktail of drugs. …

New Drug Combination Takes 24 Minutes To Execute Ohio Killer
11 years, 2 months ago

New Drug Combination Takes 24 Minutes To Execute Ohio Killer

NPR  

New Drug Combination Takes 24 Minutes To Execute Ohio Killer The state of Ohio on Thursday conducted its first execution since running out of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital. Enlarge this image toggle caption Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction/AP Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction/AP McGuire had been given, Johnson adds, "an injection of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, …

It's official now: Nebraska set to use made-in-India drug in execution
13 years ago

It's official now: Nebraska set to use made-in-India drug in execution

The Hindu  

In the forthcoming week the United States is poised to make execution history by allowing a prison in Nebraska to use a made-in-India chemical for killing a death-row inmate. Yet a U.K.-based anti-death penalty group called Reprieve, which had earlier tracked the NDCS’s efforts to source the drug from a shadowy firm in the United Kingdom, highlighted Mr. Harris’ interactions …

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