Octavia Carter, 40, accused of stabbing her husband to death in front of their children is expected to undergo a competency evaluation.
Stabbings
The first court appearance for a woman accused of stabbing her husband to death in front of their children over the weekend was postponed after she refused to attend.
A woman accused of killing her ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend will not be granted bail due to a pending domestic violence case filed against her by the ex-girlfriend.
Rita Colon, who is charged in two deaths more than a decade apart, appeared in a Henderson courtroom Tuesday for the first time since being extradited from Peru.
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.
After 33 years on Nevada’s death row, Paul Browning was released Wednesday morning from Ely State Prison.
A Bullhead City woman killed on Sunday was stabbed so hard in the chest that the knife pierced through her back, court records show.
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.
The 21-year-old Las Vegas woman accused of fatally stabbing her 2-year-old son in a botched murder-suicide attempt has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
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.
Hours before she was stabbed to death by an ex-boyfriend, Josie Jones told her daughter that her life would change soon, her daughter said during the penalty phase of the trial of Leonard Woods.
A jury deliberated for less than 20 minutes Monday before finding a Las Vegas man guilty of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in front of her daughter in 2015.