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    Patrick Charles McKenna - Nevada




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    McKenna choked fellow prisoner Jack J.J. Nobles to death on the night of January 5, 1979. The 20-year-old Nobles had been in the Clark County Jail for about two weeks on a burglary charge when McKenna was assigned to his cell.

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    April 23, 2010

    Nevada High Court Rejects 2 Death Appeals

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - The Nevada Supreme Court has denied two death penalty appeals from inmates who argued, among other things, that their lawyers were ineffective.

    Justices on Wednesday rejected appeals by Patrick McKenna and Siaosi Vanisi.

    McKenna has been on death row since 1979, when he was convicted of killing his cell mate while in the Clark County Jail. He has had three separate penalty hearings and was sentenced to death by lethal injection each time.

    http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/91830974.html

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    Court rejects rehearing for inmate accused in strangling

    CARSON CITY – The Nevada Supreme Court has refused to re-hear the appeal of death row inmate Patrick C. McKenna, convicted of strangling a fellow inmate in the Clark County jail in 1979.

    The court in April rejected an appeal from McKenna but he then asked the court to re-consider the case on grounds of jury misconduct during the penalty hearing.

    There were allegations that a bailiff told a juror that McKenna was wearing a stun gun when he appeared in court and that prejudiced the juror.

    The Supreme Court said Wednesday the district court found that McKenna's defense failed to establish that any juror was told by a bailiff about a stun gun.

    McKenna was found guilty in the strangulation of fellow inmate Jack Nobles after a chess game. McKenna and Nobles had an argument about a sexual act and McKenna started choking Nobles.

    Earlier that day McKenna had been convicted of one count of robbery, two counts of second-degree kidnapping and three counts of sexual assault.

    McKenna, now 64 and in prison in Ely, won previous appeals and had a third penalty hearing. Jurors voted to impose the death penalty.

    http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010...sed-strangling

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    On February 3, 2011, McKenna filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/nev...cv00191/79137/

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    Documentary about the case "Emperor of Death Row - Patrick McKenna".


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    I was two cells down from this guy back in the '79 when he took over the annex. He's one mean bastard.

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    Welcome to the site, johninvegas. Please tell us more.

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    Some of these murderers try to dismiss their crimes because they were only "taking out the trash," by preying on other bad guys. They appoint themselves judge, jury and executioner over miscreants who haven't been handled by the criminal justice system yet.

    But those bad-guy victims are exactly that: victims, who are entitled to exactly the same laws and rights as the rest of us.

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    Well said mostlyclassics! Inmate on inmate killings are precisely another reason why we need the death penalty! These guys are already locked up and that doesn't stop them from murdering. Jack Nobles from what I have read was in jail for some kind of property crime, while McKenna was in there for rape and possibly wanted to rape Jack Nobles.

    http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/1996...enna-timeline/

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    I find your attitude to inmate on inmate killings refreshing. You're right, prisoners, no matter what their crimes, are entitled to the same protection of the law as anyone else, and no one else is entitled to unilaterally act as judge, jury and executioner for them, that is the job of wider society to do that.

    Last year in Britain there was a child killer who was murdered by a pair of prisoners serving life sentences for murder. Most of the comments on media pieces suggested that those prisoners should be released for having done society a favour! I don't care if their victim was a child killer, people can't just murder worse people in order to gain redemption for their crimes. I wonder what such people would think if one notorious child killer murdered another notorious child killer? Would that be confirming that the child killer is beyond redemption or would that be them performing a deed to redeem themselves?

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