Two women died in separate crashes and a man was killed after being stabbed in the Las Vegas Valley this weekend.
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A man died early Saturday morning after being stabbed in the east valley.
A person suffered life-threatening injuries after they were intentionally struck by a vehicle near downtown Las Vegas, according to police.
A hit-and-run suspect accused of killing a pedestrian last month in central Las Vegas was arrested Thursday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
A woman has sued Las Vegas police, alleging that police kept her hijab from her when she was being detained, and that she resorted to using her own bra as a covering.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 inmates. Some of them have killed multiple people, including children. Others ended the lives of elderly victims. Some shot police officers or strangers, while others stabbed someone they knew.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 convicted killers, all men, most of whom have been awaiting execution for more than two decades.
Two women who claim they were forced into sex trafficking have filed a lawsuit against Nevada officials and others over the state’s lax prostitution laws.
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 Innocence Center of Nevada, which announced its launch this week, is expected to start examining claims of innocence in criminal cases next month.
Nevada prison officials have yet to establish how they plan to kill condemned prisoner Zane Floyd.
“It wasn’t his nature that created the Pat McKenna that spent all that time in prison,” said brother Ken, a former Nevada lawyer. “It was the nurture part of his life.”
Nevada’s attorney general and lieutenant governor want to end the death penalty, but Clark County’s district attorney is pushing for the state’s first execution since 2006.
A judge set bail at $750,000 for a box truck driver accused of killing five Las Vegas bicyclists, court records show.
U.S. Magistrate Judge William Cobb of Nevada announced on Tuesday that he plans to retire from the bench in January 2022. He has held the position since 2011.
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Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
An 18-year-old was taken into custody after police said he was “doing donuts in the grass area” of a Henderson park.
