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    Bill to end death penalty in Nevada introduced

    Capital punishment may no longer be a part of Nevada’s criminal justice system.

    Assembly Bill 27, which would abolish the death penalty, was introduced Friday in the Nevada Assembly. The penalty is currently allowed in Nevada as a punishment in cases involving first-degree murder.

    The law would apply retroactively to inmates on death row, and commute their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Eighty-one Nevada inmates were on death row in January, according to a Nevada Department of Corrections report.

    State officials have been unable to get responses in recent months from pharmaceutical companies for drugs needed for lethal injections after requesting proposals.

    Nevada’s last execution, by lethal injection, was in 2006, when Daryl Mack was put to death for the 1988 rape and murder of a Reno woman, Betty Jane May.

    Nevada has executed 12 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated by the Legislature in 1977.

    The bill is sponsored by Assemblyman James Ohrenschall, D-Las Vegas, and Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas. Ohrenschall is chairman of the Assembly Corrections, Probation and Parole Committee; Segerblom is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    http://trueviralnews.com/bill-to-end...da-introduced/
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    16 last meal requests from Nevada's death-row inmates

    By Brett McGinness
    The Reno Gazette-Journal

    Convicted murderer Scott Dozier is scheduled to be executed Nov. 14, 2017, the first execution in Nevada in 11 years. He will be able to request a last meal, provided it can be prepared at Ely State Prison; no outside food can be brought in.

    Below are the last meal requests of prisoners executed in the state of Nevada since July 1954.

    Steak

    Leroy Linden, executed July 15, 1954 for the murder of Clarence Dodd.

    Salami, roquefort cheese and anchovies

    Frank Pedrini, executed July 15, 1954 for the murder of Clarence Dodd.

    Steak and chocolate ice cream

    Earl Lewis Steward, executed Feb. 24, 1960 for the murder of Thomas Jessen.

    Chicken, vegetable soup, cherry pie, cheese and coffee

    Thayne Archibald, executed Aug. 21, 1961 for the murder of Albert Waters.

    Filet mignon, tossed salad with Thousand Island dressing, asparagus, baked potato with sour cream and an unspecified dessert

    Jesse Bishop, executed Oct. 22, 1979 for the 1977 murder of David Ballard.

    Jumbo shrimp, french fries, tossed salad with French dressing, clam chowder, cookies and candy

    Carroll Cole, executed Dec. 6, 1985 for the 1979 murder of Marie Cushman.

    Four double bacon cheeseburgers, french fries and a large Coke

    William Paul Thompson, executed June 19, 1989 for the 1984 murder of Randy Waldron.

    Pepsi

    Sean Patrick Flanagan, executed June 23, 1989 for the 1987 murders of James Lewandowski and Albert Duggins.

    Pizza with anchovies, apple pie, chocolate ice cream, jelly doughnuts and soft drinks

    Thomas E. Baal, executed June 3, 1990 for the 1988 murder of Frances Maves.

    Lasagna, chicken Parmesan, salad and ice cream

    Richard Allen Moran, executed March 30, 1996 for the 1984 murders of Sandra Devere, Russell Rhodes and Linda VanderVoort.

    No special request — standard inmate meal

    Roderick Abeyta, executed Oct. 5, 1998 for the 1989 murder of Donna Martin.

    Steak, rice, corn, applesauce and a Sprite

    Alvaro Calambro, executed April 5, 1999 for the 1994 murders of Peggy Crawford and Keith Christopher.

    Crab salad, French bread, 4-ounce lobster tail, mango, cheesecake, vanilla ice cream and aloe juice

    Sebastian Stephanous Bridges, executed April 21, 2001 for the 1997 murder of Hunter Blatchford.

    Cheeseburger with onions, pickle and tomatoes; french fries; three slices of pepperoni pizza; one pint each of vanilla, chocolate and chocolate chip ice cream; apple; banana; orange; a 20-ounce Coke and a 20-ounce Pepsi

    Lawrence Colwell Jr., executed March 26, 2004 for the 1994 murder of Frank Rosenstock.

    Two cheeseburgers and a Coke

    Terry Jess Dennis, executed Aug. 12, 2004 for the 1999 murder of Ilona Straumanis.

    Fish sandwich, french fries and lemon-lime soft drink

    Daryl Mack, executed April 26, 2006 for the 1988 murder of Betty Jane May.

    http://www.rgj.com/story/news/crime/...tes/827460001/

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    State: April 1 expiration date for drug in Nevada execution

    By Ken Ritter
    The Associated Press

    LAS VEGAS — Nevada's attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court for a quick review of a never-before-tried plan for a condemned inmate's lethal injection, because one of the drugs that would be used expires April 1.

    Monica Moazez, spokeswoman for Attorney General Adam Laxalt, said Monday there's no additional comment about documents submitted Friday to the high court along with seven volumes of backup material.

    Meanwhile, death-row inmate Scott Raymond Dozier is now telling a judge in Las Vegas that he doesn't care if the state uses a disputed paralytic as the third drug in his execution.

    Dozier says in a letter he doesn't want more court proceedings, he just wants his sentence carried out.

    Clark County District Court Judge Jennifer Togliatti has set a hearing Tuesday morning on that request.

    The lethal injection protocol developed by a state chief medical officer who has since resigned calls for the paralytic to be administered after high doses of the sedative diazepam, commonly known as Valium, and the powerful opioid painkiller fentanyl, which has been blamed for overdose deaths nationwide.

    Diazepam is sometimes offered in pill form to condemned inmates ahead of time, but the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center says none of the three drugs has been used directly for executions in the 31 states with capital punishment.

    Many states have struggled in recent years to find drugs that pass constitutional hurdles after pharmaceutical companies and distributors banned their use in executions.

    Cisatracurium would prevent muscle movement and ensure that breathing stops, according to Dr. John DiMuro, an anesthesiologist who quit as Nevada's top doctor in October and returned to private practice. A letter says his departure followed bullying by his supervisor, and wasn't related to the execution or the lethal injection protocol he developed.

    Togliatti told prison officials they could go ahead with the first two drugs, which an expert medical witness testified would likely cause death. But the judge cited concerns that the paralytic could "mask" or prevent witnesses from seeing indications of pain if Dozier suffers.

    The seven-member Supreme Court didn't schedule an immediate hearing on a 52-page appeal filed Friday by attorneys in state Attorney General Adam Laxalt's office. A spokeswoman for Laxalt, Monica Moazez, declined additional comment Monday about the filings. They included seven volumes of backup material.

    Jordan Smith, assistant state solicitor general, wrote that a quick decision is needed from the court because the supply of cisatracurium begins expiring April 1 and the diazepam expires May 1.

    Records show that Nevada obtained the drugs last May from its regular pharmaceutical distributor, Cardinal Health. It was not clear if the company knew their intended use. The state has refused pharmaceutical company Pfizer's demand to return the diazepam and fentanyl it manufactured.

    Dozier has been on death row since 2007 for convictions in separate murders in 2002 in Phoenix and Las Vegas.

    http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/arti...a-12439055.php
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    Scott Raymond Dozier is gone, let us deal the other cases
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    Clark County sends many to death row, but executions are rare

    By David Ferrara
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal

    While Nevada has struggled to execute a condemned killer who volunteered for his sentence to be carried out and as other parts of the country move away from capital punishment, Clark County jurors handed down the second most death sentences of any county in the United States last year.

    Of the 39 ultimate penalties imposed across the country in 2017, 31 percent were delivered in three southwest counties, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Riverside County in California issued five, Clark County issued four and Maricopa County in Arizona issued three. The entire state of Texas handed down four death sentences last year, while the rest of the country imposed 23.

    In Riverside, considered the leader in California’s death penalty, there are 15 pending capital cases, compared with at least 60 in Clark County. The two counties have nearly identical populations.

    Top Clark County prosecutor Steve Wolfson has pursued the death penalty in 71 cases since he took office in 2012. Those numbers have been on the rise in recent years, with his office filing notices of intent to seek the death penalty eight times this year, 16 times in 2017, and 14 times in 2016. In his first year in office, Wolfson sought the death penalty in five cases.

    This year, a Las Vegas jury sentenced a 63-year-old man to die.

    “We need to recognize that based upon what I’ve been told, a majority of Nevadans still favor the death penalty,” Wolfson said. “The death penalty is still the law of the land.”

    Yet in Nevada, condemned prisoners are four times more likely to be taken off death row through the legal process than by execution. Since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1977, jurors have returned 189 death sentences for 160 people, including 140 times in 120 cases in Clark County. Nearly half of the state’s death sentences — 92 — have been reversed. Among those, 51 people have been permanently removed from death row.

    The future of executions

    Still, in the midst of a close governor’s race and with other legislative offices up for grabs, lawmakers are reluctant to discuss the future of executions in the state, which last put an inmate to death in 2006.

    One assemblyman, criminal defense attorney Ozzie Fumo, says that in light of the state’s second failed attempt to execute Scott Dozier earlier this month, a bill to abolish the death penalty needs to be introduced in the next legislative session.

    “It’s time to change,” Fumo said. “It’s an absolute waste of money.”

    Gubernatorial candidate Steve Sisolak has qualified his opinion on the death penalty. He once opposed capital punishment outright. But when reached for comment, he directed a reporter to his campaign secretary, who delivered this statement, without further explanation: “Steve does not support the use of the death penalty except for in extreme cases.”

    His opponent, Attorney General Adam Laxalt, also through a spokesman, criticized Sisolak for changing his stance. Laxalt’s office represents the Nevada Department of Corrections, which is in the midst of appealing a Las Vegas judge’s July 11 decision that essentially halted Dozier’s execution hours before he was scheduled to die.

    “Adam supports the death penalty, especially for dangerous criminals guilty of horrific, gruesome crimes like Scott Dozier,” the spokesman wrote in an email. “Adam has been unequivocal on his position on this.”

    But he did not respond to questions about whether he would look to change the laws on capital punishment if elected, given the struggles to execute Dozier, who was sentenced to die in 2007 after first-degree murder and robbery convictions in the slaying of Jeremiah Miller.

    In court papers filed last week, the prison’s lawyers contemplated how state lawmakers intended the death penalty to be carried out.

    “Nevada’s elected representatives have chosen lethal injection as the State’s method of execution and have authorized the Nevada Department of Corrections to take all necessary steps to complete its lawful mandate,” the appeal stated. “It is illogical to think that the Legislature approved lethal injection, on the one hand, yet silently created causes of action to impede the State’s chosen method of execution, on the other.”

    The Clark County District Attorney’s office joined the appeal on Friday.

    Defense attorney Scott Coffee, who represents those facing the death penalty and has studied capital punishment across the country, pointed out that support for executions has waned in recent years.

    A 2017 Gallup poll reported that 55 percent of Americans favored the death penalty, down from a reported 60 percent in 2016.

    “The majority of voters don’t understand how big of a mess the process is and how broken the system is,” Coffee said. “One of the things that’s critical about a case like Dozier is that it exposes the weaknesses in the system … I’d like to fly like Iron Man, but I can’t do it. And the reality is the death penalty certainly has no flight to it.”

    He added: “It’s not really whether you believe in the death penalty. We can debate that. But do you want a death penalty in name only? Because that’s what we’ve got. The system’s broken, and it’s been broken for a long time.”

    A broken system?

    With 79 men on death row in the state, it’s unlikely that anyone who is sentenced to death will be killed at Ely’s $860,000 chamber without first waiving his appeals. Of the last 12 people executed in Nevada since 1977, 11 have been deemed “volunteers,” like Dozier. In 1996, triple murderer Richard Moran was executed against his will, but his sentence had been handed down by a three-judge panel, which has since been ruled unconstitutional.

    “In Nevada, the only people we execute are people who have volunteered,” Coffee said. “And even that’s becoming more and more difficult and costly; just look at Dozier.”

    Chief Deputy District Attorney Giancarlo Pesci, who prosecuted Dozier and several other murderers who now sit on death row, weighed the efficacy of lethal injection.

    “We should be pursuing at least the idea of other avenues to be able to impose the sentence,” such as a firing squad, which was reinstated as an execution method in Utah three years ago, Pesci said.

    “There are some crimes that are so disgustingly heinous that there has to be a punishment above and beyond all the others,” he said. “To me, an appropriate ultimate punishment is death. That’s not being sought in every case. It’s being sought in cases where defendants have done abhorrent things to people.”

    As an assemblyman, Tick Segerblom, of Las Vegas, supported legislation to abolish the death penalty, which failed in 2017 without a vote. He said he envisions lawmakers abolishing the punishment altogether, though he acknowledged that’s an “uphill battle” in Nevada, even as it’s been nearly two years since Dozier asked to be put to death.

    “We feel like it’s just a matter of time,” Segerblom, a candidate for Clark County Commission, said. “It’s a little ironic that the death penalty in Nevada is so poor that we can’t even kill someone who wants to be killed.”

    Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Vanboskerk, who authored the motion to support the prison system’s appeal, said that Dozier’s jury verdict is simply not being carried out. “The DA’s office is concerned about the impact of this civil suit upon the jury’s verdict because the jury’s role in our criminal process is bedrock and central,” Vanboskerk said. “And that it can be frustrated in such a collateral matter is of great concern.”

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...ions-are-rare/
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    Fentanyl maker joins lawsuit to block Nevada execution plan

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A maker of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl (FEN'-tah-nil) has joined a bid to block Nevada from using its product in the first execution in the state in more than 12 years.

    Over objections from a state attorney, Hikma Pharmaceuticals won permission in court on Monday to intervene in New Jersey-based Alvogen's lawsuit opposing the use of one of its drugs, the sedative midazolam (mid-AHZ'-uh-lam).

    Hikma attorney Kristen Martini told a judge the companies share "common questions of law and fact" in contentions that Nevada improperly obtained their drugs for the planned lethal injection of Scott Raymond Dozier.

    His execution had been scheduled July 11, but the judge put it on hold, at least temporarily.

    The Nevada Supreme Court has agreed to quickly consider an appeal of the delay.

    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/nat...execution_plan
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    Nevada should take a tip from Alabama on death row executions

    By Bill Blair
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal

    For those on death row who choose to be executed but whose death sentences are delayed due to legal challenges concerning the lethal injection method, maybe they could volunteer to be executed using nitrogen gas. According to news accounts, eight prisoners in Alabama recently did just that. Perhaps Nevada can legalize this method and be done with the recurring controversy over injections.

    Death-row inmate Scott Dozier could do himself and Nevada a favor by volunteering to test this method.

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinio...ow-executions/
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    He seems like the kind of guy who would do that. He would probably say, "Hey I never tried that before. Let's do it."

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    It would take years to pass a law, develop a protocol, build a nitrogen gas chamber (unless nevada's old gas chamber is still intact and can be used, I don't know) and that still won't stop the ACLU from launching appeals and activist judges from issuing stays. There is nothing wrong with the current method of lethal injection, the Nevada Supreme Court just needs to strap their balls on and stop letting these delays happen.

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    Nevada tells court Nebraska execution had no complications

    Prison officials have told the Nevada Supreme Court that witnesses reported no complications during an execution in Nebraska that used some of the same drugs that Nevada wants to use to carry out a death penalty.

    Nevada state attorneys, on behalf of state prison officials, said in a Wednesday court filing that media witnesses in Nebraska "reported no complications, only some coughing before (Carey Dean) Moore stopped moving."

    The document also noted that Nebraska's four-drug combination included a sedative, the synthetic opioid fentanyl and a muscle paralyzing agent like the one Nevada plans to use.

    Robert Dunham at the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., said Thursday it is too soon to know if the execution Tuesday of the 60-year-old Moore in Nebraska was trouble-free.

    "Witnesses did not see the death itself," Dunham said, noting that Moore was pronounced dead several minutes after a death chamber blind was lowered.

    "I think we have to wait to see what the autopsy results show," Dunham said.

    Nevada prison officials in July proposed substituting the sedative midazolam for expired stocks of another sedative, diazepam, to be followed by fentanyl and the paralytic cisatracurium for the planned execution of twice-convicted killer Scott Raymond Dozier.

    Nebraska's use of diazepam, fentanyl and cisatracurium represented the first use of each in a lethal injection.

    In Nebraska, officials also administered a heart-stopping drug, potassium chloride, that is not part of Nevada's planned three-drug protocol.

    Media witnesses including The Associated Press saw Moore take short, gasping breaths that became deeper and more labored. He gradually turned red and then purple as the drugs were administered, and his chest heaved several times before it went still. His eyelids briefly cracked open.

    Two pharmaceutical companies want the Nevada high court to let a state court judge decide if prison officials can use their drugs for an execution.

    The state wants justices to decide a fast-track appeal.

    Dozier, 47, is not challenging his convictions or sentences for drug-related killings in Phoenix and Las Vegas in 2002. He said he wants to die and doesn't care if it's painful.

    His executions were called off in November and July amid legal arguments over the products the state decided to use after having trouble obtaining lethal drugs for the state's first execution in 12 years.

    https://www.newsobserver.com/news/po...#storylink=cpy
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