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Las Vegas man removed from death row 31 years after first sentence

John Valerio was just 22 when he was first convicted of murder and placed on death row in 1988 for fatally stabbing a 26-year-old Las Vegas woman. But in 2002, after more than a dozen years of imprisonment, an error prompted a federal appeals court to overturn Valerio’s sentence while upholding his conviction.

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Suspect in stabbing may be linked to earlier crime, report says

Willie Jackson, the 27-year-old man arrested Friday as a suspect in the Thursday morning stabbing of a woman in the central valley, may have stabbed another victim in the same apartment complex in July, the Metropolitan Police Department said in an arrest report.

 
Las Vegas Strip stabbing suspect was jailed after 2015 attack

The man accused of stabbing a Palazzo security guard Wednesday morning previously went to jail for trying to stab a security guard at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, records show.

Man gets life in prison for 1991 killing of Las Vegas woman

A 64-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in the long-unsolved 1991 beating and fatal stabbing of a Las Vegas woman.