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Join our friends at Nevada Coalition of Legal Services in pursuit of justice for those impacted by COVID.

COVID-19 has hit LasVegas much harder than most of the country. Almost 1/8th of our renters are facing possible eviction. To avoid tens of thousands of people being forced out on the street, the Nevada Supreme Court is considering rules to create an eviction mediation program. The hope is to prevent and settle eviction matters …

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Battle over drugs for Nevada execution ends with no decision

Written by Ken Ritter LAS VEGAS (AP) — A nearly two-year court fight over drugs that Nevada obtained for an execution it never carried out has ended with pharmaceutical companies taking back their expired products and the state accepting refunds, with no clear decision about how a lethal injection could be carried out. A judge …

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Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty

COMMENTARY: Time to kill Nevada’s death penalty

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 …

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