Death penalty is upheld in fatal robbery

CARSON CITY -- The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence given to a Las Vegas man convicted of a 1985 Las Vegas murder.

The court said none of the issues raised by Paul Browning on appeal for the stabbing death of jewelry store owner Hugo Elsen warranted a reversal of the death penalty imposed by a jury in 2006.

Browning won a new penalty hearing in 2005 after 19 years on death row when the Nevada Supreme Court said prosecutors could not use a defendant's "depravity of mind" as a factor to warrant a death sentence.

Elsen had been tending to his jewelry store at Las Vegas Boulevard and Bonneville Street when Browning came in, stabbed Elsen repeatedly and fled with jewelry.