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| Inmate who wants to die awaits Nevada Supreme Court decision |
| By reviewjournal.com- David Ferrara |
| Published: 05/09/2018 |
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As a prisoner awaits a decision on his death wish, the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on whether the state Department of Corrections should proceed with an untested method of lethal injection. “It is a very important subject,” Chief Justice Michael Douglas said after more than an hour of statements from Scott Dozier’s federal public defender and attorneys for the state. David Anthony, a lawyer for the 47-year-old death row inmate who was scheduled to be executed in November and has said he wants to die, argued for a two-drug cocktail that did not include a paralytic drug called cisatracurium, which could mask suffering. Dozier, a twice-convicted murderer, has not wavered from a desire to have his sentence carried out, which he first expressed in a letter to District Judge Jennifer Togliatti in late 2016. Read More. |
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