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title: 'Nevada Lawmakers Eliminate Three-Judge Panel'
description: 'Nevada lawmakers have given final approval to a measure that bans the use of three-judge panels in deciding whether the state should hand down death…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/nevada-lawmakers-eliminate-three-judge-panel'
section: news
date: '2003-06-26T21:44:27-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:23:17-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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Nevada lawmakers have given final approval to a measure that bans the use of three-judge panels in deciding whether the state should hand down death sentences to those convicted of capital murder. Sentences have been handed down by a panel of three judges when a jury can't decide on a penalty, but that procedure was called into question by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in [Ring v. Arizona](/article.php?scid=38&did=247). The new procedure requires judges in cases involving hung juries to decide whether to impanel a new jury or impose a sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole. The bill now goes before the Governor for signature into law.

(Associated Press, May 28, 2003) See [Supreme Court](/news-us-supreme-court?did=248&scid=38).