Octavia Carter, 40, accused of stabbing her husband to death in front of their children is expected to undergo a competency evaluation.
Months before an indictment was unsealed, a top prosecutor in the Nevada attorney general’s office recommended not filing criminal charges in a prison killing.
Prosecutors announced Wednesday that they plan to seek the death penalty for two of the 23 defendants tied to a violent white supremacist prison gang in Nevada.
Two years after Anthony Williams was suspected of helping a fellow inmate stab another man to death in prison, he was freed without facing charges in the killing.
A Las Vegas woman was sentenced Wednesday for fatally stabbing her 2-year-old son. The crime occurred in February.
A Las Vegas woman pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder nearly four years after the stabbing death of an 84-year-old woman who was attacked at home.
Prosecutors say Cristina Guadalupe Moya fatally stabbed her 2-year-old son then tried to kill herself because she was distraught over a breakup with the boy’s father.