Prison director Scott Frakes has selected four members of the media as witnesses for the Aug. 14 execution of death-row inmate Carey Dean Moore.
In a news release Friday, the Department of Correctional Services named Joe Duggan of the Omaha World-Herald, Grant Schulte of The Associated Press, Chip Matthews of News Channel Nebraska and Brent Martin of Nebraska Radio Network as media witnesses.
By state statute, Frakes may designate up to six people to witness an execution. At least two must be professional members of the Nebraska news media.
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Two prison staff members, who are Moore's escorts, also will serve as witnesses, the prisons department said. Moore is allowed to select additional witnesses.Ìý
He's scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 10 a.m. on Aug. 14, and his execution will be the first in Nebraska since Robert Williams' in 1997 and the state's first using lethal injection.
Moore received a death sentence for the shooting deaths of Reuel Van Ness Jr. and Maynard Helgeland in Omaha in 1979.
Nebraska's 12 death row inmates
Nebraska's 11 death row inmates
Jose Sandoval
Jose Sandoval,ÌýJan. 31, 2005, Madison County. Sandoval was convicted with Jorge Galindo and Erick Vela of shooting and killing Lisa Bryant, 29, Lola Elwood, 43, Samuel Sun, 50, all Norfolk, Jo Mausbach, 42, Humphrey, and Evonne Tuttle, 37, of Stanton, in a botched attempted bank robbery.
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Nikko Jenkins
* Nikko Jenkins, May 30, 2017, Douglas County. Eleven days after his release from prison, where he had been for 10 years for two carjackings, Jenkins shot and killed Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruizon on Aug. 11, 2013. Eight days later, Jenkins killed Curtis Bradford, a one-time prison acquaintance. Then, on Aug. 21, he pulled Andrea Kruger from her SUV as she drove home from work and shot her four times before speeding off in her vehicle.
NATI HARNIK, Associated Press file photo
John Lotter
* John L. Lotter, Feb. 21, 1996, Richardson County. Lotter and Marvin Nissen were convicted of killing Teena Brandon, 21, of Lincoln, a transgender male. They killed Brandon in 1993 to silence him after he told police they had raped him. They also killed Lisa Lambert, 24, and Phillip DeVine, 22, who lived in the same house as Brandon and witnessed the killing. Lotter has maintained his innocence.
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Raymond Mata
* Raymond Mata, June 1, 2000, Scotts Bluff. Mata was convicted of killing and dismembering 3-year-old Adam Gomez, his former girlfriend’s son, in 1999. Prosecutors said Mata fed parts of the boy's body to a dog, and kept some of his remains in the home to intimidate the boy’s mother.
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Jorge Galindo
* Jorge Galindo, Nov. 10, 2004, Madison County. Convicted with Jose Sandoval and Erick F. Vela for shooting and killing Lisa Bryant, 29, Lola Elwood, 43, Samuel Sun, 50, all Norfolk, Jo Mausbach, 42, Humphrey, and Evonne Tuttle, 37, of Stanton, in a botched attempted bank robbery.
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Erick Vela
* Erick F. Vela, 34, Jan. 12, 2007, Madison County. Convicted with Jose Sandoval and Jorge Galindo for shooting and killing Lisa Bryant, 29, Lola Elwood, 43, Samuel Sun, 50, all Norfolk, Jo Mausbach, 42, Humphrey, and Evonne Tuttle, 37, of Stanton, in a botched attempted bank robbery.
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Jeffrey Hessler
* Jeffrey Hessler, May 18, 2005, Scotts Bluff County. In 2003, Hessler kidnapped, raped and murdered 15-year-old newspaper carrier Heather Guerrero.
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Roy Ellis
* Roy L. Ellis, Feb. 6, 2009, Douglas County. Ellis abducted, sexually assaulted and killed 12-year-old Amber Harris, who died of at least two blows to the head. Ellis has said he used a hammer, and he may also have strangled her.
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Marco Torres
* Marco E. Torres, Jan. 29, 2010, Hall County. In 2007, he tortured and killed Edward Hall, 60, binding him with an electrical cord, gagging him with a bathrobe belt and shooting him three times. He then shot and killed Timothy Donohue, 48, who lived in a room upstairs in Hall's home. The men were killed to conceal a robbery.
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Anthony Garcia
Anthony Garcia, a former doctor convicted of killing four people connected to Creighton Medical Center, was sentenced to death Sept. 14, 2017.
KENT SIEVERS, Omaha World-Herald
Aubrey Trail
Aubrey Trail (left) was sentenced to death June 9, 2021, for killing Sydney Loofe and dismembering her body.
FRANCIS GARDLER, JOURNAL STAR file photo
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