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Nebraska executes Carey Dean Moore for murders of Omaha cab drivers Maynard Helgeland, Reuel Van Ness Jr.

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Nebraska executes Carey Dean Moore for murders of Omaha cab drivers Maynard Helgeland, Reuel Van Ness Jr.

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Carey Dean Moore execution

Scott Frakes (left), director of Nebraska Department of Corrections, delivers a statement after the execution of Carey Dean Moore in August. In the background are three of the four media witnesses: Chip Matthews (from left) of News Channel Nebraska, Joe Duggan of the Omaha World-Herald and Brent Martin of Nebraska Radio Network.

Carey Dean Moore execution

Media witnesses Joe Duggan of the Omaha World-Herald (from left), Chip Matthews of News Channel Nebraska, Grant Schulte of the Associated Press and Brent Martin of Nebraska Radio Network after the execution of Carey Dean Moore at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in August 2018.

Media witnesses Joe Duggan of the Omaha World-Herald (from left), Chip Matthews of News Channel Nebraska, Brent Martin of Nebraska Radio Network and Grant Schulte of The Associated Press answer questions after the execution of Carey Dean Moore on Tuesday at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.

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The earth shifted a bit in Nebraska on Tuesday morning when it became not just a state with a death penalty, but one that has resumed capital punishment after a 21-year de facto moratorium. 

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'I don’t think killing a killer brings any kind of peace to anyone': Small group protests execution

Heavy rains did not deter a small group of death penalty protesters who gathered outside the Nebraska State penitentiary Tuesday in opposition to the state’s first execution in 21 years.

About 20 people gathered in a portion of the parking lot cordoned off for those opposed to the execution of Carey Dean Moore. 

LINCOLN, NEB. - 08/14/2018 -Amanda Ward, of Lincoln, burns sage at the Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty rally Aug. 14, 2018 at the state capitol building. Burning sage is a Native American ceremonial custom that represents purification and is often used whenever people die. EMILY BLOBAUM, Journal Star

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Jordec Cramer (from left), Eliot Cramer and Bridget Cramer, all of Lincoln, attended Tuesday's Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty rally at the Capitol.

EMILY BLOBAUM, Journal Star

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A group of demonstrators gather at the Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty rally at the state Capitol on Tuesday. The event was held several hours after the state executed Carey Dean Moore.

EMILY BLOBAUM, Journal Star

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A group of demonstrators hold signs to passing cars at the Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty rally on Tuesday at the State Capitol.

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Video: News conference after execution of Carey Dean Moore

Execution carried out

A Corrections Department spokeswoman confirmed Moore's death shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Story here: https://journalstar.com/news/local/911/nebraska-executes-carey-dean-moore-for-murders-of-omaha-cab/article_c2332b24-145e-51b8-9bd3-d4b13e64b70c.html 

Execution expected to be complete at 10:45 a.m.

The execution of Carey Dean Moore should be complete at about 10:45 a.m., prison officials told media inside the Nebraska State Penitentiary.

Moore was read his execution warrant and allowed to give a statement around 9:15 a.m. It is unclear what, if anything, he said.

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Video: Outside the prison at 10 a.m.

Lone protester awaits state's first execution in 21 years; more join in hour before

Matt Maly of Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty stands alone in the opponents area outside the Nebraska State Penitentiary on Tuesday as the state prepared to execute Carey Dean Moore.

ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star

Two hours before the planned execution of Carey Dean Moore, Matt Maly of Nebraskans against the death penalty was the only person in the area designated for opponents of capital punishment outside the Nebraska State Penitentiary.

Maly said he is not encouraging others to be there to avoid the "circus" atmosphere of previous executions, although more protesters arrived in the hour before the scheduled execution.

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Journalists gather Tuesday morning outside the Nebraska State Penitentiary in advance of Carey Dean Moore's execution.

ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star

Nebraska ready to put Carey Dean Moore to death

Juanita Rice of Lincoln (left) holds a sign at an anti-death penalty protest at Woods Park on Monday. Carey Dean Moore is set to be executed on Tuesday.

EMILY BLOBAUM, Journal Star

Barring any successful last-minute appeals to try to stop his execution, 60-year-old Carey Dean Moore will be put to death by the state of Nebraska at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

The execution will take place at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln.

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Public access guidelines for execution

Public access guidelines for execution

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History of the death penalty in Nebraska

1903 - Gottlieb Neigenfind is the first person to be executed by the state of Nebraska by hanging. Earlier executions were carried out by individual counties.

1913 - Nebraska's execution method changes from hanging to electrocution.

Death penalty

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ACLU files notice with Supreme Court on Moore's behalf

The ACLU of Nebraska filed a notice Monday with the Nebraska Supreme Court on Carey Dean Moore’s behalf, along with a death penalty lawsuit reply brief.

The lawsuit, on behalf of eight death row inmates, does not include Moore as a plaintiff but as an “indispensable party defendant,” along with Arthur Gales and Jeffrey Hessler.

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No decision on second drug company's request to stop use of its drug for execution

The U.S. District Court of Nebraska is not expected to rule before Tuesday on a request by Sandoz Inc.'s request to intervene in a lawsuit to force the state to disclose the source of one of its lethal injection drugs. 

Because of that, the execution of Carey Dean Moore will proceed as planned at 10 a.m., barring any other interruption, legal or otherwise. 

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Appeals court rejects effort to delay Nebraska execution

Just over 24 hours before Carey Dean Moore’s scheduled execution, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused a German drug company's efforts to delay or block Nebraska from using its drugs for lethal injection.

Fresenius Kabi filed the lawsuit against the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and prisons director, Scott Frakes, on Aug. 7.

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Read the 8th Circuit Court's order

Read the 8th Circuit Court's order

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Family members remember men slain by Moore, say legal wrangling has gone on too long

Lori Helgeland-Renken spent the evening of Aug. 26, 1979, reading “Amityville Horror” in her Council Bluffs, Iowa, duplex, turning the pages well into the early morning hours, oblivious of the real-life horrors to come.

The 19-year-old woman had never heard the name Carey Dean Moore, had no clue the 22-year-old man had gone to the Greyhound bus station in Omaha with evil on his mind.

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Lori Helgeland-Renken

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Maynard Helgeland as a boy. 

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Steve Helgeland

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Steve Helgeland, shown here in a photo with his father Maynard, who was killed by Carey Dean Moore.

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Brother of death row inmate Carey Dean Moore: 'He would just like to die'

David Moore holds a photo of his brother, Carey Dean Moore, that was taken during an interview in prison by a news photographer. David Moore said he has always wondered what question had been asked of his brother before the picture was taken.

Journal Star file photo

If the state executes Carey Dean Moore next week as planned for killing two men in 1979, his twin brother will be there with him.

"It will not be easy, no," said 60-year-old David Moore of Lincoln. "But Dean wants me there, so I have little choice. Sometimes none of us have a choice in things. Swing with the punches and come up kicking."

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This photo, taken near the time of the murders of Reuel Van Ness Jr. and Maynard Helgeland, is one of the few that David Moore has of his brother Carey Dean Moore.

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Church and state have collided during death penalty debate in Nebraska

As Nebraska hurtles toward a solemn moment it has not experienced in 21 years, its public officials — and citizens — confront what may be tension between their personal views and the tenets of their religious faith. 

Sometimes, they conflict. Or may appear to do so.

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Journalists photograph the execution chamber at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in 2010 as officials offered a tour of the execution facility in the wake of its conversion to accommodate lethal injection.

ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star file photo

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Sens. Kathy Campbell of Lincoln and Ernie Chambers of Omaha embrace after the Legislature voted in 2015 to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a law ending the death penalty in Nebraska. 

ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star file photo

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Sen. Colby Coash listens to debate in 2015 on a motion to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a law repealing the death penalty in Nebraska. Before the vote, Coash talked individually with fellow Republicans and conservatives, trying to appeal to each one based on their beliefs, he said.

ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star file photo

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Nebraska senators voted in 2015 to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a bill (LB268) to repeal the death penalty.

GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star file photo

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Van Ness family member: Moore should have been executed a long time ago

For years, Tom Rinabarger wore a thick, handlebar mustache just like his dad's.

Eventually he cut it off, but the 58-year-old Omaha man said he's thought of his dad — Reuel Van Ness Jr. — daily since he was murdered Aug. 22, 1979.

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Victims of those sentenced to capital punishment in Nebraska

Maynard Helgeland

Maynard Helgeland was shot and killed by Carey Dean Moore in his Omaha taxi cab. 

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Maynard Helgeland, 47, of Omaha, Happy Cab driver. He was shot three times in the head on Aug. 26, 1979, by Carey Dean Moore. His body was found on the front seat of his cab on a street near downtown Omaha adjacent to a vacant lot. He had picked up Moore on a Sunday night. Helgeland was known as a very dependable driver and a nice, positive person. He and his son, Ken, had operated the cab since July 2. Both his legs had been amputated two years prior at the Veterans Hospital.

Steve Helgeland, shown here in a photo with his father Maynard, who was killed by Carey Dean Moore.

COURTESY PHOTO

Reuel Van Ness

Reuel Van Ness

Omaha World-Herald file photo

Reuel Van Ness, 47, of Omaha, Safeway Cab driver. He was shot four times by Carey Dean Moore in 1979 when he reached back for Moore's gun as Moore tried to rob him. His body was found sprawled face down in a desolate park road intersection at Standing Bear Lake in northwest Omaha. Van Ness had worked for an Omaha construction company and part time as a cab driver for 17 or 18 years. He was a Korean War veteran and father of 10 children.

Brandon Teena

Teena

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Brandon Teena, 21, of Lincoln. The transgender man was killed in 1993 near Humboldt by John Lotter and Marvin Nissen. They killed Teena to silence him after he told police the two men had raped him. He was shot twice in the head and stabbed.

Philip Devine

Philip Devine, 22, of Fairfield, Iowa, died in 1993. John Lotter was convicted of shooting Devine, who had a prosthetic leg, twice in the head because he witnessed the killing of Brandon Teena at a farmhouse near Humboldt. 

Lisa Lambert

Lisa Lambert, 24, of rural Humboldt, a nurse's aide. She died in 1993. John Lotter was convicted of killing Lambert, a single mother of a 9-month-old boy, because she witnessed the murder of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was staying in the one-story farmhouse Lambert rented. Lambert was shot three times, twice in the head at close range.

Adam Billie-Gomez

Adam Billie-Gomez, 3, of Scottsbluff. Adam, the son of Patricia Gomez, was killed by Raymond Mata and dismembered in December 1999. Parts of his body were found in a freezer and a dog bowl, and bone fragments belonging to him were found in Mata's dog's stomach. 

Latara and Tramar Chandler

Latara Chandler, 13, and Tramar Chandler, 7, of Omaha. In 2001, police found Latara's body, nude from the waist down, in a bedroom at the apartment of her mother, who had been found in another location severely beaten by Arthur L. Gales. Tramar's body was found face up in the bathtub, with his legs outside the tub. Autopsies revealed that Latara died as a result of manual strangulation and that Tramar died as a result of drowning and manual strangulation. Latara had been sexually assaulted.

Lisa Bryant

Lisa Bryant

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Lisa Bryant, 29, of Norfolk. Bryant was the mother of a 9-year-old son and a stepdaughter and had been married just weeks when she was killed at her U.S. Bank branch in Norfolk on Sept. 26, 2002, by Erick Vela during a botched robbery attempt. Bryant, who was a personal banker who had worked at the bank six years, was a graduate of Wayne State College.

Lola Elwood

Lola Elwood

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Lola Elwood, 43, of Norfolk, assistant branch manager at U.S. Bank for 14 years**.** Elwood was shot and killed by Jorge Galindo during the botched bank robbery on Sept. 26, 2002. She was married and the mother of two children. She was said to have loved crafts, sewing, music and taking care of her family.

Samuel Sun

Samuel Che Kwong Sun

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Samuel Sun, 50, of Norfolk, a teller at U.S. Bank for eight years**.** The father of two sons, he was shot and killed at the Norfolk bank by Jose Sandoval on Sept. 26, 2002. Sun had an associate's degree in business management from Northeast Community College. He was said to have enjoyed opera and liked to watch the Green Bay Packers with his boys.  

Jo Mausbach

Jo Mausbach

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Jo Mausbach, 42, of Humphrey, a bank teller at U.S. Bank for 17 years. She was shot and killed at the Norfolk bank by Jose Sandoval on Sept. 26, 2002. She was married and the mother of a daughter and a son. She attended Wayne State College. Mausbach was a caring person who lived for her children and family, her husband said. 

Evonne Tuttle

Evonne Tuttle

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Evonne Tuttle, 37, of Stanton. A bank customer, she was shot and killed by Jose Sandoval in Norfolk during a botched robbery attempt Sept. 26, 2002. She was the mother of three daughters. Tuttle grew up in Ewing and had pursued degrees in business and computer science at Wayne State College and Northeast Community College. She was an assistant editor at the Stanton Register and was said to have a knack for handling customers. 

Heather Guerrero

Heather Guerrero

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Heather Guerrero, 15, of Gering. Heather was a newspaper carrier who was kidnapped, raped and shot in the head by Jeffrey Hessler in February 2003. Her body was found in an abandoned farmhouse. She was active in her school, playing volleyball, being a student manager for the basketball team, and in a group that did anti-drug skits for children. 

Amber Harris

Amber Harris

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Amber Harris, 12, of Omaha. Amber was kidnapped after she got off her school bus in November 2005 and headed home. Her remains weren't found in an Omaha park for six months. Roy L. Ellis kidnapped and killed the seventh-grader by hitting her in the head with a blunt object. 

Edward Hall and Timothy Donohue

Edward Hall, 60, and Timothy Donohue, 48, both of Grand Island**.** The two men were killed by Marco E. Torres in 2007. Torres bound Hall, who owned the house in which Torres was living, with an electrical cord, gagged him with a bathrobe belt and shot him three times. He then shot and killed Donohue, who lived in an upstairs room in Hall's home. The men were killed to conceal a robbery. 

Curtis Bradford

Curtis Bradford

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Curtis Bradford, 22, of Omaha. Bradford was killed in August 2013 by Nikko Jenkins, who he met when both were in prison. He had planned to study business and entrepreneurship at a technical institute, his mother said.

Jorge Cajiga Ruiz and Juan Uribe-Pena

Jorge Cajiga Ruiz

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Jorge Cajiga Ruiz, 29, and Juan Uribe-Pena, 26, both of Omaha. They were killed in August 2013 by Nikko Jenkins, both shot in the head while sitting in a pickup truck after being lured to a park under the pretense of having sex with two women. 

Andrea Kruger

Andrea Kruger

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Andrea Kruger, 33, of Omaha. Kruger, a mother of three children, was found shot to death and left lying in the street in west Omaha. Nikko Jenkins was convicted in her August 2013 death as the result of a random attack when she was on her way home from work. She left behind a husband and three children, ages 2 to 13. 

Terry Berry Jr.

Berry

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Terry Berry Jr., 22, of Scottsbluff and Steinauer. Berry was strangled to death in April 2017 by convicted killer Patrick Schroeder in a cell he shared with the inmate at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. Berry was serving up to three years for forgery and assault. His obituary notice said he enjoyed helping others, especially his grandfather.

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Carey Dean Moore

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