FDA says Nebraska can't legally import execution drug, blurring the fates of 10 on death row

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joe Duggan and Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — A push to execute 10 condemned men despite the repeal of Nebraska’s death penalty was confronted with yet another hurdle Friday when a federal agency said the state cannot import a critical lethal injection drug.

Gov. Pete Ricketts said he agrees with the attorney general that Nebraska should be able to execute its death row inmates upon receiving the drugs it recently bought from a broker in India.

The state has already paid $54,400 to replace two lethal injection drugs that had expired.

“Our plan is to proceed with the executions,” the governor said Friday during a press conference that marked the end of the 2015 legislative session.

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[drm604]

1. Bloodthirsty.

Gotta kill as many as possible within those three months!

[Hoppy]

2. Arrest anyone who accepts the drug delivery.

[mountain grammy]

3. wow, amazing.. hurry up and kill people while you still can..

sickening, while the Nebraska attorney general sues Colorado for legalizing cannabis, he can't wait to go on a killing spree.

[morningfog]

4. What a sick man. Just sick.

Sociopath.

[iandhr]

5. Regardless of what you think of the death penalty.

The situation does create a murky and some might say interesting legal situation.


Given this has happened in other states people are still on death row despite having repealed the death penalty.

[True Blue Door]

6. What the Governor wants to do doesn't seem legal.

Regardless of what a sentence was before the legislature action, the law allowing the government of Nebraska to kill people has been repealed. It no longer has the authority to carry out executions.