[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----NEBRASKA

[Rick Halperin]

August 13



NEBRASKA----impending execution

Drugmaker: No more appeals in Nebraska execution


A German pharmaceutical company says it won’t ask the U.S. Supreme Court to 
intervene after losing an appeal in a case that threatened to block Nebraska 
from carrying out its first execution since 1997.

Drug company Fresenius Kabi recently filed a lawsuit accusing Nebraska prison 
officials of improperly obtaining its drugs for lethal injections. The company 
said it doesn’t want its drugs used in executions and asked a federal judge to 
prevent the state from doing so Tuesday.

The judge refused, and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision 
Monday.

An attorney for Fresenius Kabi said later Monday that the company won’t pursue 
an additional review with the nation’s highest court.

That means Carey Dean Moore is still scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the 
1979 shooting deaths of two Omaha cab drivers.

(source: Associated Press)