Corrections Security Coordinator until 1987 when he was promoted to Deputy Warden at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. Mr. Hopkins served in this capacity until 1990 when he... was appointed as Interim Warden at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. In 1991 Mr. Hopkins became Warden of the Nebraska State Penitentiary and served in this position until 1999 when he...

, executions in Nebraska were handled in the county where the offense took place. Since 1903, all executions in Nebraska have taken place at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. From 1903... executions by lethal injection, as required by the Nebraska Legislature. The execution chamber is located in the basement of the Nebraska State Penitentiary. There are a series of rooms... including a viewing room, preparation room, holding cell and the room that houses the lethal injection bed itself. Nebraskas Death Row was housed at the Penitentiary from 1903...