Urgent Action Update: Nebraska Conducts First Execution Since 1997 (USA: UA 136.18)
September 17, 2018The US state of Nebraska carried out its first execution in 21 years on 14 August, and the first by lethal injection. The 60-year-old prisoner, Carey Dean Moore, had been on death row for nearly four decades. He did not seek clemency and had given up his appeals.