The execution of inmate Carey Moore by authorities in the US state of Nebraska was shrouded in secrecy and lacked government transparency, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Nebraska Executive Director Danielle Conrad said in a statement on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th August, 2018) The execution of inmate Carey Moore by authorities in the US state of Nebraska was shrouded in secrecy and lacked government transparency, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Nebraska Executive Director Danielle Conrad said in a statement on Tuesday.
Earlier on Tuesday, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Director Scott Frakes announced that Moore was pronounced dead at 10:47 a.m. Central Time after they began injecting him with chemical substances at 10:24 a.m.
Governor [Pete] Ricketts has carried out a lethal injection shrouded in secrecy, Conrad said in the statement. This execution of Carey Dean Moore does not comport with Nebraskas proud tradition of open government.
Moores execution marks a dark chapter in the history of Nebraskas troubled dealings with the death penalty, Conrad said. He added that more US states are working to avoid capital punishment while Nebraskas corrections system remains severely overcrowded and under-resourced, creating conditions for human rights violations.
Moore was executed with a mix of powerful paralyzing substances including the first-time use of fentanyl in the United States. Fentanyl is at least 30 times stronger than heroin and has never before been used in a US execution. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that in recent years, fentanyl abuse has become an alarming problem in the United States and caused nearly 30,000 deaths by overdose in the country.
Last week, US District Court Judge Richard Kopf ruled against a motion by German healthcare company Fresenius Kabi to block Moores execution after it claimed that the US state illegally procured the enterprises chemicals to use them in the lethal injection. However, Kopf said the drugs were purchased legally by a licensed US medical distributor.
Fresenius Kabi argued that the state's supply of potassium chloride is stored in 30-milliliter vials and that it is the only company to store the drug in vials of that size. Fresenius also claims that it produced cisatracurium besylate, the second out of four drugs which Nebraska used for the execution.
Moore was sentenced to death for killing two taxi drivers in 1979. He been on death row for more than 40 years. When the state of Nebraska suspended the death penalty in 2015, Moore faced life in prison. But Nebraska reinstated capital punishment in 2016 and issued a death sentence for the inmate.
