Today, Governor Pete Ricketts and Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) Director Scott Frakes announced that the department has successfully purchased all three drugs necessary to carry out Nebraska’s death penalty under the current protocol. NDCS currently possesses one of these drugs, and the other two will be delivered in the near future.
Currently, NDCS possesses potassium chloride. The department has ordered sodium thiopental and pancuronium bromide from HarrisPharma.
Currently, there are death row inmates who appear to have exhausted their appeals.
Updates will be provided when drugs are received from the distributor.