But Moore, who came within a week of being executed in Nebraska's electric chair in 2007, plans to fight, his attorney Alan Peterson said Tuesday. So several years may pass before an execution is carried out because the courts haven't yet evaluated Nebraska's new execution procedures. The state's last execution occurred in 1997, when Robert Williams was electrocuted for killing three women. Eleven men remain on Nebraska's death row.

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Besides Williams, Harold Otey and John Joubert also have been electrocuted since the state resumed executions in 1994. Moore, 53, was sentenced to death for the 1979 murders of two Omaha cabbies. He was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Maynard D. Helgeland and Reuel Eugene Van Ness in botched robberies. Six days before Moore was scheduled to be executed in 2007 the state's high court issued a stay because it wanted to consider whether the electric chair should still be used. Then the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the electric chair amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

Since then, lawmakers approved lethal injection as the state's sole method. For nearly four decades, former state Sen. Ernie Chambers, who opposed the death penalty, held up any effort to change Nebraska's method of execution because he believed the electric chair eventually would be banished by the courts. Chambers' departure from the Legislature in 2008 because of term limits made it possible for lawmakers to pass the lethal injection bill. On Friday, the state received the third drug needed to carry out an execution by lethal injection. A worldwide shortage of the drug, sodium thiopental, has made it hard to acquire, and the only U.S. Manufacturer of the drug announced last week that it would stop making it.

Nebraska's lethal-injection law and the execution procedure prison officials developed were modeled on Kentucky's system because that state's death penalty withstood the scrutiny of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said last summer that it had prepared a new execution chamber and trained workers to carry out the death penalty once the state obtained the sodium thiopental that will be used to render an inmate unconscious. The other drugs involved in the process are pancuronium bromide, which paralyzes an inmate's breathing, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.

Nebraska's five-page lethal injection protocol requires that three drugs be administered during an execution by trained corrections workers, including two emergency technicians who would be responsible for maintaining an open IV line. After an execution date is set, members of the execution team who have already received training will undergo weekly refresher courses. Neopets cookie grabber downloader apk. When no execution dates are scheduled, the team trains every six months. Critics of lethal injection have argued that corrections workers who don't regularly administer intravenous drugs may have trouble finding a vein. Supporters say the training requirements spelled out in the protocol — including that members of the IV teams be trained as emergency medical technicians — would alleviate that concern. All 36 death penalty states use lethal injection, and 35 rely on the three-drug method.

But the three-drug procedure has been questioned. In 2009, Ohio switched to a one-drug execution procedure after the state botched a lethal injection. Romell Broom's executioners tried unsuccessfully for two hours to find a usable vein for injection, painfully hitting bone and muscle in as many as 18 needle sticks before the governor halted the execution. The Death Penalty Information Center says there are nine states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia — that still list electrocution as an option in certain circumstances, but they all use lethal injection as their primary execution method.