a flawed process
More than half of death penalty cases in Nevada are overturned or reversed by state or federal courts due to serious procedural flaws, including prosecutorial misconduct.
Flaws
in the death penalty
By the numbers
of death penalty filings in Clark County since 2012 were against people of color
1
%
of Nevadans prefer alternatives to the death penalty, according to a 2021 poll conducted by David Binder Research
0
%
of people on Death Row in the US are innocent, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences
0
%
of US Criminological experts surveyed rejected the notion that the death penalty deters murder
1
%