LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska death row inmate Carey Dean Moore wants to question Attorney General Jon Bruning and other officials over attempts to go forward with his execution when they didn’t have a legal drug on hand to put him to death. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Moore’s attorney, Jerry
Soucie, says it was cruel and unusual punishment to allow Moore to think his execution was looming when the state had no way to carry it out. Soucie made the argument in a court filing in Douglas County.  Moore was to be executed in June for the 1979 slayings of two Omaha cabbies. The Nebraska Supreme Court issued a stay while Soucie challenged the purchase from an Indian company of one of the drugs used by Nebraska to carry out lethal injections.