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    Zane Michael Floyd - Nevada Death Row


    Thomas Darnell


    Carlos Leos


    Dennis Sargent


    Lucille Tarantino


    Zane Michael Floyd


    Summary of Offense:

    Is a convicted mass murderer who is most notorious for killing four people: Thomas Darnell, 40, Carlos "Chuck" Leos, 41, Dennis Troy Sargent, 31, and Lucille Tarantino, 60, and injuring another, Zachary T. Emenegger, in a Las Vegas supermarket on June 3, 1999. After pleading guilty to the murders, Floyd was sentenced to death by a Nevada jury.

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    Nevada high court rejects appeals of death row inmates

    For the 3rd time, the Nevada Supreme Court has rejected the petition of death row inmate William Lester Witter, convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in Las Vegas and then fatally stabbing her husband.

    The court also denied the appeal of Zane M. Floyd, sentenced to death for the murder of 4 employees at a former Albertsons grocery store in Las Vegas in June 1999.

    Witter, now 47, argued a jury instruction on premeditation was flawed and his conviction should be overturned.

    The court said Witter’s attack was an act of "extreme violence" and his actions were not a "rash impulse."

    "Moreover, as the evidence demonstrated that the killing occurred during the attempted commission of a sexual assault and burglary, Witter failed to demonstrate that he would not have been convicted of 1st-degree murder under the felony-murder theory," the court said.

    Witter was convicted of stabbing and trying to sexual assault Kathryn Cox in a garage in Las Vegas. When Cox's husband James arrived home, Witter stabbed him 16 times, killing him.

    Floyd, now 35, claimed he was not permitted to present evidence to support his latest petition. The Supreme Court said many of the claims by Floyd had been previously raised and decided.

    Floyd maintained he was incapable of premeditation because of his fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dissociative disorder and long-term use of drugs, alcohol and methamphetamines.

    The court said there was conflicting evidence and there was nothing to prove his innocence.

    Floyd was convicted in the fatal shooting of Thomas Darnell, 40, Carlos "Chuck" Leos, 41, Dennis Troy Sargent, 31 and Lucille Tarantino, 60.

    (Source: The Las Vegas Sun)

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    On April 17, 2006, Floyd filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/nev...6cv00471/47986

    On September 22, 2014, Floyd's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal...0471/47986/145

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    Only ten years??? Swift!

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    On January 31, 2019, oral argument will be heard in Floyd's appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

    https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/calenda...s=31&year=2019

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    Floyd's panel will be made up of Judges Berzon (Clinton), Owens (Obama) and Friedland (Obama).

    https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/calenda...s=31&year=2019

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    In today's opinions, the Ninth Circuit DENIED Floyd's appeal.

    http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastor...1/14-99012.pdf

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    In theory, if I am understanding this correctly, are we looking at our first involuntary Nevada execution in a few months?

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    This is a state that couldn't even carry out a voluntary execution. I highly doubt this guy will get executed. Also I believe this is the first guy in 20 years to even get this far because their Supreme Court likes to waste everyone's time.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    On February 3, 2020, the Ninth Circuit DENIED Floyd's petition for en banc rehearing.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketP...on%20FINAL.pdf

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