By Thomas E. Viloria Special to the Review-Journal Nevada’s death penalty is broken beyond repair and should be abolished. I was a prosecutor in the original major violators unit of the Washoe County District Attorney’s office. In that capacity, I sought the death penalty in five first-degree murder cases and obtained a death sentence in …
Originally published in Reno Gazette-Journal. Nevada lawmakers introduced legislation Friday that would abolish the death penalty in the state. The bill, co-sponsored by Assemblyman Ozzie Fumo and Sen. James Ohrenschall, calls for a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for someone convicted of first-degree murder, while reducing the sentence of …
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