A state prisoner convicted of a 1996 murder spent more than a year out of custody until the Department of Corrections realized he was unaccounted for, court records show.
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Rancho High School history teacher and State Assemblyman Reuben D’Silva, D-Las Vegas, said fights happen frequently in the area surrounding the school.
Carlos Manuel Perez Jr., 28, died on Nov. 12, 2014, while he was serving an 18- to 48-month sentence for battery at High Desert State Prison, in Indian Springs.
Federal public defenders argued before the Supreme Court that lawmakers need to more clearly designate how lethal injections can be carried out in Nevada.
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.
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.
As prosecutors push to execute Zane Floyd, prison officials hope to keep secret their discussions about what drugs could be mixed in the lethal injection cocktail.
Clark County prosecutors plan to seek a warrant of execution for death row inmate Zane Floyd as Nevada legislators weigh the future of capital punishment in the state.
Frank LaPena who spent decades in prison after being convicted of being the mastermind behind the murder of a Caesars Palace executive’s wife, was granted a pardon by the state Pardons Board on Wednesday.