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Botched executions may complicate Nevada’s death penalty process |
By reviewjournal.com- Whip Villarreal |
Published: 07/29/2014 |
CARSON CITY — Messy executions in Arizona and Ohio that made national headlines could buoy efforts by death penalty opponents to stave off capital punishment for some 80 Nevada inmates awaiting execution. The cases could be used to pile on to the ever-growing number of legal challenges to capital punishment in the Silver State, adding the argument that the use of lethal injection should be considered a cruel and unusual form of punishment, said Clark County Deputy Public Defender Scott Coffee. “If anything, we are going back to the Dark Ages,” Coffee said. “The guillotine is less cruel and unusual than what they have done in Arizona and Ohio as of late.” Read More. |
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