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Nebraska is poised on Tuesday to become the first state to execute a prisoner with a deadly cocktail that includes a drug that has killed thousands of innocent Americans — fentanyl.
Barring a last minute reprieve, Carey Dean Moore, a convicted double-murderer who has spent more than half his life on death row, will be strapped at 10 a.m. local time (11 a.m. ET) to a gurney in the death chamber at the state penitentiary in Lincoln.
It will be Nebraska’s first execution in more than two decades.
The drugs will be administered intravenously, starting with Valium to knock Moore out, according to the notice that the Nebraska Department of Corrections sent on Jan. 19 to the condemned man.
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Next, Moore, 60, will injected with fentanyl, an opioid that has fueled the plague of fatal overdoses that killed more than 150 people just in Nebraska last year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That will be followed by cisatracurium besylate to paralyze Moore’s muscles and potassium chloride to stop his heart.
Moore will not die alone.
“State law allows three witnesses to attend on behalf of Moore, in addition to one member of the clergy,” according to Nebraska DOC. “Up to three witnesses may also attend on behalf of the victims’ families.”
It was not immediately clear who those witnesses would be, but the DOC released the names of the four reporters who would be there for the execution.
Moore would be the first prisoner put to death by lethal injection, prisoner officials said. Up until 1997, the last time an inmate was put to death, the state used the electric chair.
Moore has been on death row longer than any other prisoner in Nebraska. He was convicted of killing two cab drivers, Maynard Helgeland and Reuel Van Ness, five days apart in 1979. He has spent 38 years on death row, longer than anyone in U.S. history.
While the ACLU of Nebraska asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to delay the execution, Moore has already made it clear he is ready to die.
Billy Dickson of Omaha, who has been corresponding with Moore for 20 years, told The Omaha World-Herald newspaper Moore is tired of living on death row.
“For his good and for the victims’ families, I would hope this time it is carried out, as much as I will miss him,” he said. “I have hope that I will see him again.”
Moore came close to being executed in 2011. His execution was stayed by the state Supreme Court after questions were raised about how the DOC got its hands on a lethal drug the agency had planned to use on Moore.
In 1999, Nebraska placed a moratorium on executions, and nine years later the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that the electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment.
Then in 2015, the largely Republican Nebraska legislature abolished the death penalty, over the objections of Gov. Pete Ricketts, who vetoed the initial bill. But a year later, Nebraska voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot question that reversed the death penalty repeal.