Nevada appealing killer's twice-delayed execution

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Ken Ritter, Associated Press
Updated 8:24 pm CDT, Wednesday, July 25, 2018

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada prison officials appealed Wednesday to the state Supreme Court, seeking to overrule a delay of the state's first execution in 12 years after a drug company opposed the use of its product.

The 64-page filing asks the court to lift what state attorneys call "an unprecedented temporary restraining order" that they say "put the interests of Big Pharma over the interests of Nevada's capital murder victims."

Nevada Department of Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Santina had no immediate information about the appeal filed by state Attorney General Adam Laxalt's office.

The filing came two weeks after twice-convicted killer Scott Raymond Dozier's lethal injection was postponed for a second time after a lawsuit was filed by New Jersey-based Alvogen opposing the use of its sedative midazolam. That delay occurred six hours before Dozier was scheduled to die in Ely State Prison.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Nevada-appealing-twice-delayed-execution-to-state-13105599.php

[Botany]

1. From wiki: Scott Raymond Dozier

On April 18, 2002, Jeremiah Miller met Dozier at La Concha, a motel on the Las Vegas Strip. Dozier had promised to help Miller buy ephedrine, a key ingredient in the production of meth. Miller had brought $12,000 in cash for that express purpose. Upon Miller's arrival at La Concha, Dozier killed him (likely by shooting), sawed Miller's body into multiple pieces, stuffed most of them into a suitcase, and disposed of it near an apartment complex in western Vegas.[3] The suitcase was discovered by a worker the following week. Miller's head and arms were never found. Dozier was arrested on June 25, 2002, in Phoenix, Arizona, after which he was also connected to the July 27, 2001, murder of Jasen "Griffin" Green, whose remains were found in a plastic container in the desert north of Phoenix.[4]

Dozier received a 22-year sentence in 2005 for killing Green. After being extradited to Nevada, he stood trial for Miller's murder. He was convicted of the murder in September 2007, and received a death sentence on October 3, 2007, which was upheld by the Nevada Supreme Court on January 23, 2012.


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I am against the D.P. because it costs too much, takes too long, puts the victim's family and friends through
years of hell, in many cases the accused doesn't get the best legal help, and I think 20 + years in a little cement
box is worse then death but as long as it is on the books just shoot 'em and be done with it.

[Jake Stern]

2. Fuck you Laxalt

"Putting the interests of Big Pharma over the interests of Nevada's capital murder victims"

Well asshole if you didn't have the death penalty then you wouldn't have to be worried about such an occurrence.