Proposed legislation will end Nevada’s death penalty Exciting news! You may have heard that there is a bill in the Nevada Legislature that proposes to repeal our death penalty law and replace it with life without parole. The bill, AB 237, is co-sponsored by Assemblymember James Ohrenschall and Senator Tick Segerblom. It is set for hearing …
Written by Randy Fielder for The Nevada Independent Who gets the death penalty? The answer is not, as many suppose, every murderer. The Supreme Court decided in 1976 that murder, by itself, is not enough to warrant the death penalty. But also consider: Between 2000 and 2012 in Clark and Washoe Counties, there were 1,256 …
A new report from the Fair Punishment Project at Harvard looks at how the death penalty is operating in the small handful of counties across the country that are still using it. Of the 3,143 county or county equivalents in the United States, only 16—or one half of one percent—imposed five or more death sentences …
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