Nebraska on Tuesday became the first state in the United States to use fentanyl in an execution.
Convicted murderer Carey Dean Moore was declared dead Tuesday after being injected with a previously untried four-drug combination of diazepam, fentanyl, cisatracurium and potassium chloride, according to The Omaha World-Herald.
Moore, who served 38 years on death row for the 1979 killings of Omaha cabdrivers Reuel Van Ness and Maynard Helgeland, became the first inmate put to death in Nebraska since 1997.
Corrections Director Scott Frakes said the first of the four execution drugs was administered at Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln at 10:24 a.m., and the Lancaster County coroner declared him dead at 10:47 a.m.
Frakes said the execution was carried it out with "professionalism, respect for the process and dignity for all involved."
