Nebraska Becomes First State To Carry Out Death Penalty With Controversial Four-Drug Cocktail
(World News Science)

For the first time in US history, fentanyl, the controversial drug at the center of the country´s opioid epidemic, was used to execute a convicted murderer. The execution was Nebraska´s first since 1997 and took place Tuesday, August 14, at the State Penitentiary. Carey Dean Moore, 60, was convicted of killing two cab drivers nearly 40 years ago, reports the Omaha World-Herald. According to the...