In an series of unprecedented moves Tuesday, the US state of Nebraska not only carried out its first execution in nearly a generation, but authorities used the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out the death sentence, the Washington Post reported. The execution of Carey Dean Moore, 60, was the state’s first death carried out in 21 years, the report said. Making the execution even more unusual was the state’s very recent history, which saw its legislature abolish the death penalty in 2015 before voters reversed that decision the following year, eported. Moore had spent more than half his life on death row, the report said. He was sentenced to death for killing two Omaha cabdrivers...

Authorities in Nebraska on Tuesday morning used the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out a death sentence, an unprecedented move that came as the state - which just three years ago briefly abolished capital punishment - completed a remarkable reversal and resumed executions for the first time...

The execution is the state's first-ever lethal injection and first execution in 21 years.

Carey Dean Moore, 60, was executed using a new drug cocktail in Nebraska's first lethal injection. The state's last execution was by electric chair.

Nebraska carried out its first execution in 21 years on Tuesday by administering a lethal injection to its longest-serving death row inmate, a man who was convicted of killing two taxi drivers in 1979.

The opioid that has killed thousands of Americans to be used in Nebraska execution of death row inmate.

Carey Dean Moore, 60, will be executed by a new drug cocktail in Nebraska's first lethal injection. The state's last execution was by electric chair.

Nebraska plans to carry out its first execution in 21 years on Tuesday by delivering a lethal injection to a man convicted of killing two taxi drivers in 1979.

The first execution in the United States which will use the powerful opioid drug fentanyl is scheduled for Tuesday in Nebraska after a federal appeals court dismissed a pharmaceutical company's attempt to halt the killing, according to the Guardian. But the court approved for Nebraska to put Carey Dean Moore to death using the controversial method since it is the "will of the people." Nebraska made the decision to include fentanyl in the cocktail of drugs which it will use to carry out the state's first execution in 21 years after facing difficulties obtaining the necessary pharmaceuticals to carry out the lethal injection from drug manufacturers and distributors. Moore has been on death row...

Nebraska’s first execution since 1997 will be carried out after a judge ruled Friday in favor of the inmate’s wishes, despite a German pharmaceutical company's lawsuit claiming the state illicitly obtained its drugs.