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1 Dec 2007, 6:31 am
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services' appeal of State Personnel Board decision to demote its adult protection worker instead of firing her is dismissed because it was not filed in the correct county. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 12:11 pm by Raven Moore
The civil rights organization claims that the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) [official website] adopted a "flawed protocol" last year that did not receive adequate review from the public. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 5:09 am
"After Bringing Back The Death Penalty, Nebraska Looks To Act In Secret; The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services wants to allow its execution drug suppliers to be secret from now on; In the past, the state has (unsuccessfully) bought illegal execution drugs": Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News has this report. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 8:34 am by Steve Hall
The state Department of Correctional Services has responded to a letter from three state senators asking for details about the department's recent purchase from an Indian company of one of the drugs used in Nebraska's lethal-injection protocol. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 7:53 am by Steve Hall
Bush, ordered the FDA to require any state correctional department in possession of sodium thiopental to return the drug to the FDA. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 8:52 am by Steve Hall
"Lethal injection table ready," is the title of Paul Hammel's report in the Omaha World-Herald.Physically, the state is ready to carry out executions again.State corrections officials said Tuesday that the remodeling of the death chamber at the Nebraska State Penitentiary has been completed.The electric chair, ruled an unconstitutionally cruel and unusual form of capital punishment by the Nebraska Supreme Court, is now in storage.Its … [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 8:31 am by Steve Hall
Last week, the state Department of Correctional Services signed off on the three-drug cocktail and the process of administering it to death-row inmates.The department devised the proposed protocol and did not make any changes to the proposal after some raised concerns about it, including that it doesn't clearly specify how workers should be trained to administer the drugs.If Bruning approves the proposal, it will go to Gov. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 8:00 am by Steve Hall
A Nebraska corrections department spokeswoman said the department would work with the AG’s office on a formal response to the FDA. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 7:57 am by Steve Hall
Brenda Council hasn't been able to persuade the Legislature to authorize a study of the costs of the death penalty to the state, she now has a few numbers, courtesy of a public records request by ACLU Nebraska.Records show the state Department of Correctional Services had spent more than $33,000 through the end of January to prepare for an execution using lethal injection.When the Legislature debated the bill (LB36) to make lethal injection the method used to… [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 11:49 am by Steve Hall
The court documents show that a lawyer with the state Department of Correctional Services was told via an email message from a U.S. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 9:19 am by Steve Hall
But on Thursday, the Nebraska Department of Corrections announced it had purchased $5,411 worth of sodium thiopental from a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 7:41 am
"We've been moving this with haste because we knew that we wanted these procedures developed'' as soon as possible,'' said Robert Houston, director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 9:46 am by Steve Hall
State legislators made lethal injection Nebraska's method of execution in May 2009 as a way around a 2008 Nebraska Supreme Court ruling that declared electrocution cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 3:41 am by SHG
The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services does not and did not have any contract with Fresenius Kabi. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 7:00 am
These laws apply to the Nebraska Department of Corrections and to the Nebraska State Penitentiary (NSP), where the state carries out executions. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 7:29 am
The Nebraska-filed Form D must include the State Appendix Pages and a $200 fee but Form U-2, Uniform Consent to Service of Process, is not required. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 8:16 am by Steve Hall
He says Nebraska lawmakers were wrong in 2009 to give the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services the authority to set the state’s lethal injection protocol when use of the electric chair was abolished. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 9:00 am by Steve Hall
“This is a matter for the courts to decide,” said Dawn-Renee Smith, spokeswoman for the state corrections department, who declined to comment further. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 8:19 am by Steve Hall
Bruning's office has asked the high court to set an execution date for Ryan, but Ryan's lawyer argued last week that the office has twice advised the state Department of Correctional Services on purchases of the lethal-injection drug, sodium thiopental, that were called into question. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 9:00 am by Steve Hall
Plus, legal challenges could put capital punishment on hold for several years in Nebraska, which hasn't executed an inmate since 1997.Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Director Robert Houston discussed the state's readiness for an execution on Wednesday, shortly after state officials showed reporters the Nebraska State Penitentiary's new execution chamber for the first time. [read post]