The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Nebraska since its statehood.
On April 21, 2011, the Nebraska Supreme Court set the first execution date via lethal injection for June 14, 2011.
On May 26, 2011, the Nebraska Supreme Court stayed the execution due to objections that the sodium thiopental that Nebraska purchased from a Mumbai company failed to comply with U.S. pharmaceutical standards.
[2] The first execution in Nebraska reportedly was of Cyrus Tator, a former Kansas Legislature member and judge in Lykins County, Kansas who was tried and convicted of murdering his business partner in 1863.
A total of 20 people were executed by Nebraska after 1897 and before the 1972 Supreme Court capital punishment ban.