State v. Moore

The court, on its own motion, has reconsidered its order for the issuance of a death warrant for Carey Dean Moore. Under Nebraska law, the mode of inflicting the punishment of death, in all cases, is “by causing to pass through the body of the convicted person a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death.”1 In another case on ohr docket,2 we have been asked to determine whether electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment.3 And we have repeatedly noted that recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court at least raised the question whether electrocution is constitutional.4 Our…