Sheri Aoyagi was killed in 2018 so the 17-year-old who robbed her home would “leave no witnesses behind,” District Judge Tierra Jones said Monday.
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Murder weapons are in this vault, and the belongings of the murdered, too. The bottle of sangria found at the scene of a sexual assault is safely stored near the swingset that crushed a boy’s skull, leading to a $20 million civil judgment.
Day two of a three-day evidentiary hearing regarding Nevada’s plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd began Wednesday morning in federal court.
Christopher Berrios, 55, is accused of killing 46-year-old Bernard Robledo at the Las Vegas home they shared and dumping his body in a recycling bin in September.
John Dabritz, 67, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for the ambush shooting last year of Jenkins near Ely.
Tristan Tidwell, 35, was arrested last week in the shooting deaths of three men in less than two hours in North Las Vegas.
The courtroom was packed on Thursday when three people charged in connection with the killing of 27-year-old Roy Jaggers made their first court appearance.
A Las Vegas man accused of killing two people and critically injuring a third in a dispute over unpaid rent made a brief court appearance Monday.
In exchange for John Dabritz’s plea of “guilty but mentally ill,” White Pine County prosecutors have pulled capital punishment off the table.
Amelia Claypool’s boyfriend skirted a trial — and a murder conviction — when he accepted a plea deal in 2019. Now, her parents are demanding “a trial by jury” in a civil case.
A 17-year-old arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 39-year-old man last week was granted bail Tuesday morning.
Lawyers for death row inmate Zane Floyd say an untested combination of drugs planned for his lethal injection would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
Within days, Nevada prison officials could finalize their execution protocol and disclose the lethal injection cocktail planned for the capital punishment of Zane Floyd.
The family of a 60-year-old man who was killed by a Pershing County sheriff’s deputy has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.
Nevada prison officials have yet to establish how they plan to kill condemned prisoner Zane Floyd.