A federal judge heard testimony Thursday regarding firing squad methods during an evidentiary hearing on Nevada’s proposed plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd.
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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.
A Las Vegas business executive facing a voting fraud charge related to the 2020 election is expected to enter a guilty plea during a court hearing Tuesday.
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.
A Nevada federal court ruling that held a deportation law unconstitutional is likely headed for appellate scrutiny because of the broad implications it would have on immigration cases, legal experts said.
The Department of Corrections has been taking up to half of the money families send prisoners for basic supplies even after new legislation intended to cap such deductions.
District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, who served on the bench for 17 years, has submitted her resignation effective later this year.
A recently published report shows that a primary caregiver’s partner — typically a mother’s boyfriend — was identified as the suspect in more than half of child abuse and neglect cases in Clark County in fiscal 2016.
Two prisoners, a Clark County School District employee and a Nevada Department of Corrections staff member are accused of participating in a phone smuggling scheme at High Desert State Prison.