OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska’s longest-serving death row inmate has withdrawn his request to act as his own attorney.
Carey Dean Moore last week asked a Douglas County district judge to let him file pleadings, motions and other legal documents. But in paperwork filed Thursday, Moore says he’s changed his mind.
Moore was convicted of murder for killing cab drivers Maynard Helgeland and Reuel Eugene Van Ness in 1979. 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. Nebraska lawmakers have since replaced electrocution with lethal injection as the state’s preferred method of execution.
Moore’s execution has faced additional delays because of controversy over one of the drugs required for the execution.