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    I think more significant is the fact that he's a former federal public defender

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    TL;DR they’re now seeking a warrant for the week beginning 26 July. Also, it’s weird as hell to see a deputy AG writing the phrase “cancel culture” in a legal document.

    Possible Nevada execution date being pushed to late July

    By Ken Ritter
    The Associated Press

    LAS VEGAS — Prosecutors in Las Vegas are changing from early June to late July the date they’re proposing for the lethal injection of a mass murderer who would be the first convicted killer put to death in Nevada in 15 years.

    The date change emerged Friday in a court filing submitted to a federal judge considering an order to stop and review plans to execute Zane Michael Floyd.

    Floyd is fighting his execution for the 1999 shotgun killings of four people and the wounding of a fifth at a Las Vegas supermarket. His attorneys did not immediately respond Friday to messages.

    Deputy Nevada Attorney General Randall Gilmer said in the court document that District Attorney Steve Wolfson still plans to ask a Clark County District Court judge next Friday to issue an execution warrant for Floyd, but will seek the week of July 26 instead of the week of June 7.

    Deputy Clark County District Attorney Alexander Chen confirmed the change and noted that Nevada prisons chief Charles Daniels told U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II on Thursday that while he would carry out an execution if a warrant is issued, he would like more time to plan.

    “We agree that’s the best course,” Chen said.

    “There’s no do-over button in executions,” Daniels had testified.

    State law gives the prisons chief primary responsibility for an execution. But Daniels told Boulware he has not finalized plans for an execution, including the drugs that would be used, and has not yet drawn up protocol. Daniels said also that prison officials would benefit from practice to correct possible mistakes.

    Floyd’s attorneys, deputy federal public defenders David Anthony and Brad Levenson, are raising concerns about a rush toward a botched and inhumane execution. They want Boulware to stop and review the process and require Daniels to make the execution protocol public.

    The court fight is shadowed by delays of an execution that was scheduled twice -- in 2017 and 2018 — for convicted killer Scott Dozier.

    Dozier pleaded with the state to put him to death, but his lethal injection was stopped twice by court fights over the process and the drugs. Dozier killed himself in prison in January 2019.

    In court documents, Gilmer has raised concerns about a “media sideshow” and “cancel culture” if the state reveals the drugs it would use in Floyd’s case, and the names of manufacturers. The state attorney argued that only after the plan is developed can Floyd challenge the process.

    Boulware scheduled another hearing Monday.

    Floyd, 45, a former U.S. Marine, is not a volunteer for execution. He was sentenced in 2000 to die, and also was convicted of raping a woman at his parents’ home hours before the deadly shooting rampage.

    Although his lawyers filed documents in state court suggesting he could be executed by firing squad, lethal injection is the only capital punishment method Nevada allows.

    The last person put to death in Nevada was Daryl Mack in 2006. He had been convicted in a 1988 rape and murder in Reno and asked for his sentence to be carried out.

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    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    You should read some of the South Dakota AG's legal filings in death penalty cases. In a filing against Briley Piper, they called Piper and his cohorts "druggies" and compared the crime to A Clockwork Orange. In filings against Charles Rhines, they called him a "stone cold killer," denigrated his military service by putting "service" in quotations, and compared his homophobia claims to Jussie Smollet's staged hate crime, writing that Rhines "is the Jussie Smollet of homosexual persecution, crying wolf in furtherance of a personal agenda."
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    I don't understand: what's the difference between this guy and Raymond Dozier?

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    Well this guy isn't a volunteer. Nevada couldn't execute Dozier and he was begging for it. No way Floyd gets executed.
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    US judge says he’ll have time to hear Nevada execution plan

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge acknowledged Monday that with the proposed date for Nevada’s first execution in 15 years to be scheduled for late July, he’ll have time to review the state’s unannounced lethal injection plan and decide what information about it should be made public.

    “We still need to move quickly because of the proposed date,” U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II.

    An execution date is expected to be set for convicted mass murderer Zane Michael Floyd by a state judge on Friday.

    Floyd, 45, is fighting his execution for the 1999 shotgun killings of four people and the wounding of a fifth at a Las Vegas supermarket. He lost federal appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take his case.

    Boulware told attorneys for Floyd, the state and the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he was inclined to grant a stay of execution so he can review the execution process, called a protocol. But the judge said no decision-making can take place until state officials supply details about the protocol.

    “We’re waiting for a key piece of evidence that is central to all this inquiry to be finalized,” Boulware said.

    Nevada Department of Corrections Director Charles Daniels testified last Thursday that he has not finalized the execution plan — including the drugs that would be used. Daniels said he’d like to be given up 120 days to do so.

    Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson had wanted to seek Floyd’s execution in early June. Last Friday, prosecutor Alexander Chen said Judge Michael Villani will be asked this week to set Floyd’s execution date during the last week of July. Nevada would join Texas, Idaho and Pennsylvania as the only U.S. states with executions scheduled.

    State prison officials want to keep secret their records about the drugs that would be used, how they are obtained and the names of the manufacturers.

    The last execution in Nevada was of Daryl Mack in 2006. He was convicted in a 1988 rape and murder in Reno and asked for his lethal injection to be carried out.

    The court fight over Floyd’s execution is shadowed by delays of an execution that was scheduled twice — in 2017 and 2018 — for convicted killer Scott Dozier.

    Dozier pleaded with the state to put him to death, but his lethal injection was called off twice by court fights over the protocol, the never-before-used combination of drugs and the unwillingness of pharmaceutical companies to let their products be used. Dozier killed himself in prison in January 2019.

    Death penalty opponents want the Legislature to repeal capital punishment in Nevada. They have said the process is expensive and unwieldy and that the 64 people currently on the state’s death row should have their sentences commuted to life in prison without parole.

    The state Assembly approved a repeal bill in April, but leaders in the state Senate have not indicated whether they’ll take up the measure before the Legislature adjourns next month. Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, opposes it.

    Leaders of civil rights and Black community groups held a virtual news conference Monday to describe what they called inequities in Nevada’s capital punishment law and to call for the repeal bill to get a Senate hearing.

    “Why, I ask you, are we wasting money on killing people? Why?” asked Ender Austin III, a regional leader of Faith in Action Nevada. He said millions of dollars spent on death penalty case investigations, trials and appeals could be better spent educating children.

    Boulware set another hearing about Floyd’s case for May 20.

    https://apnews.com/article/nv-state-...59e8adaf89ad68
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    Judge mulls disqualifying Vegas DA in Nevada execution case

    By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

    A state court judge is considering whether to disqualify the district attorney in Las Vegas from handling a prosecutorial bid to set the execution date for a convicted Nevada mass murderer.

    A day after Gov. Steve Sisolak and the top Democrat in the Legislature declared efforts to repeal the state’s death penalty law dead, Clark County District Court Judge Michael Villani on Monday pushed back to June 4 a hearing on the district attorney’s request to set a late July date for the lethal injection of Zane Michael Floyd.

    Floyd, 45, would be the first convicted killer put to death in Nevada since 2006.

    He is fighting his death sentence in state and federal courts. U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II has said he might stop the proceedings long enough to review the constitutionality of Nevada’s untested lethal injection method and the as-yet-undisclosed drugs prison officials would use. Boulware will hear more about Floyd’s case next Thursday.

    Before Villani on Friday, deputy federal public defenders David Anthony and Brad Levenson accused Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson of creating “the likelihood of public suspicion” that he improperly influenced the death penalty debate in the Legislature with the timing of his request for Floyd’s death warrant.

    They asked the court to appoint a third-party prosecutor instead.

    Alexander Chen, the chief deputy district attorney handling the Floyd case, said state law requires the district attorney or the state attorney general’s office handle death penalty applications.

    Levenson accused Wolfson, who favors the death penalty, of pressuring Democrats in the state Legislature — including two of Wolfson’s prosecutorial deputies, Senate Democratic Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Melanie Scheible — to scuttle a death penalty repeal bill.

    Wolfson, Cannizzaro and Scheible did not immediately respond Friday to requests for comment.

    Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat who was Clark County Commission chairman when 58 people were killed in a Las Vegas Strip shooting in October 2017, said Thursday he believes capital punishment should be used only in “severe situations.” The gunman in the Strip shooting killed himself before police reached him.

    Floyd, 45, was sentenced in 2000 to die for the shotgun killings of four people and the wounding of a fifth at a Las Vegas supermarket in 1999.

    Levenson told Villani the repeal bill passed the state Assembly but never got a Senate hearing. He accused the Senate leaders who work for Wolfson, Cannizzaro and Scheible, of being “two people who stood in the way.” He suggested their non-Legislature jobs were on the line.

    “If they didn’t do what they were supposed to do, would they be invited back?” he asked.

    Chen said there are other lawmakers in the Senate and dismissed as “disingenuous” the argument that his prosecutorial colleagues were to blame for the bill’s failure.

    Levenson read into the court record a quote Wolfson provided to the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a March 26 report about his call to execute Floyd.

    “I think the timing is good,” Wolfson said. “Our legislative leaders should recognize that there are some people who commit such heinous acts, whether it be the particular type of murder or the number of people killed, that this community has long felt should receive the death penalty.”

    “We would be moving forward with the Zane Floyd efforts at obtaining the order and warrant of execution notwithstanding the Legislature,” Wolfson said at the time. “I’m not purposefully moving forward with Floyd because of the Legislature. But because they’re occurring at the same time, I want our lawmakers to have their eyes wide open because this is a landmark case. They need to be aware that there are these kinds of people out there where the jury has spoken loudly and clearly.”

    Levenson told Villani that Nevada residents and his client “deserve the assurance that the lawyers representing the state who are seeking Mr. Floyd’s execution, the harshest penalty that there is in law, are doing so fairly and not to further an agenda to manipulate the other branches of government.”

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    This state is so pathetic. They can't even get a hearing to set execution dates without ghouls in robes interfering. A real, actual judge would have laughed this argument out of the courtroom.
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    I think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself. It sounds like the judge just listened to an insane argument of counsel seeking to delay an execution date. Note that there are no comments from the judge in the story that indicate that he's inclined to take such a drastic action.

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    Judge Won't Disqualify Las Vegas DA in Nevada Execution Case

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A state court judge said Friday he won't disqualify the district attorney in Las Vegas from handling a bid to set the execution date for a convicted Nevada mass murderer.

    A defense attorney for condemned inmate Zane Michael Floyd said they will appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.

    A day after Gov. Steve Sisolak and the top Democrat in the Legislature declared efforts to repeal the state’s death penalty law dead, Clark County District Court Judge Michael Villani also pushed back to June 4 his hearing of the district attorney’s request to set a late July date for Floyd's lethal injection. Floyd, 45, would be the first convicted killer put to death in Nevada since 2006.

    An appeal by his attorneys, deputy federal public defenders David Anthony and Brad Levenson, could slow the pace of Floyd's legal fights against his death sentence in state and federal courts.

    U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II has said he might stop the proceedings in federal court long enough to review the constitutionality of Nevada’s untested lethal injection method and the as-yet-undisclosed drugs prison officials would use. Boulware will hear more about Floyd’s case next Thursday.

    Before Villani on Friday, Anthony and Levenson accused Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson of scheduling his request for a judge to issue Floyd’s death warrant for political reasons — to influence the death penalty debate in the Legislature. They asked the court to appoint a third-party prosecutor instead.

    Alexander Chen, the chief deputy district attorney handling the Floyd case, said state law requires the district attorney or the state attorney general's office to handle death penalty applications.

    Levenson accused Wolfson, who favors the death penalty, of pressuring Democrats in the state Legislature — including two of Wolfson’s prosecutorial deputies, Senate Democratic Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Melanie Scheible — to scuttle the death penalty repeal bill.

    Wolfson, Cannizzaro and Scheible did not immediately respond Friday to messages seeking comment.

    Sisolak, a Democrat, said Thursday he believes capital punishment should be used only in “severe situations.”

    Floyd, 45, was sentenced in 2000 to die for the shotgun killings of four people and the wounding of a fifth at a Las Vegas supermarket in 1999.

    Levenson told Villani the repeal bill passed the state Assembly but never got a Senate hearing. He accused the Senate leaders who work for Wolfson, Cannizzaro and Scheible, of being “two people who stood in the way.” He suggested their non-Legislature jobs were on the line.

    “If they didn’t do what they were supposed to do, would they be invited back?” he asked. The judge issued a written finding to the court record saying he was satisfied that Cannizzaro and Scheible were on leaves of absence from Wolfson’s office and that while serving in the Legislature they were “not under the control of” Wolfson.

    “The court finds that under the present scenario there is not a separation of powers violation,” he said.

    Levenson read into the court record a quote Wolfson provided to the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a March 26 report about his call to execute Floyd.

    “I think the timing is good,” Wolfson said. “Our legislative leaders should recognize that there are some people who commit such heinous acts, whether it be the particular type of murder or the number of people killed, that this community has long felt should receive the death penalty.”

    “We would be moving forward with the Zane Floyd efforts at obtaining the order and warrant of execution notwithstanding the Legislature,” Wolfson said at the time. “I’m not purposefully moving forward with Floyd because of the Legislature. But because they’re occurring at the same time, I want our lawmakers to have their eyes wide open because this is a landmark case. They need to be aware that there are these kinds of people out there where the jury has spoken loudly and clearly.”

    Levenson told Villani that Nevada residents and his client “deserve the assurance that the lawyers representing the state who are seeking Mr. Floyd’s execution ... are doing so fairly and not to further an agenda to manipulate the other branches of government.”

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usn...Fcontext%3Damp

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