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Nebraska set to become first US state to use fentanyl in execution
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Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 13, 2018 07:09pm |
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Author | Chris McGreal |
News Date | Monday, August 13, 2018 04:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | The first execution in the US using the opioid drug fentanyl is expected to take place on Tuesday after a federal appeals court rejected a German pharmaceutical company’s move to block the killing.
The court gave the go ahead on Monday for Nebraska to put to death Carey Dean Moore on the grounds it is the “will of the people”. Moore has been on death row for four decades for the 1979 murders of two cab drivers in Omaha.
Nebraska has included fentanyl – a synthetic opioid found in more than 20,000 overdose deaths in 2016 alone – in the cocktail of drugs it intends to use for its first execution in 21 years after struggling to buy pharmaceuticals in the face of opposition from manufacturers and distributors. |
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