Entries tagged with “Scott Dozier”

Conditions on Death Row

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Oct 24, 2024

New Analysis: Death-Sentenced Prisoners ​“Volunteer” for Execution at Ten Times Civilian Suicide Rate

Derrick Dearman first told his moth­er that he want­ed to die when he was four years old. On October 17, he was exe­cut­ed by the state of Alabama, becom­ing the 20th per­son exe­cut­ed in the United States this year and the 165th in the mod­ern era to​“vol­un­teer” for death. A new analy­sis by the Death Penalty Information Center shows that despite falling rates of death sen­tences, exe­cu­tions, and pub­lic sup­port for the death penal­ty, the num­ber of death-sentenced prisoners…

Executions

Apr 07, 2020

News Brief — Drugmakers Drop Lawsuit as Nevada Returns Unused Execution Drugs

NEWS (4/​7/​20) — Nevada: A tri­al-court judge in Las Vegas has dis­missed a law­suit filed by drug­mak­ers against the Nevada prison sys­tem after state offi­cials agreed to return unused drugs it had obtained under false pre­tens­es in a failed attempt to exe­cute Scott Dozier in 2018. Pharmaceutical com­pa­nies Alvogen, Inc., Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA, and Sandoz Inc. reached a set­tle­ment with the state in which Nevada agreed to give back the drugs, which have expired,…

Executions

Jan 07, 2019

Scott Dozier, Who Unsuccessfully Tried to Force Nevada to Execute Him, Dead of Apparent Suicide

Nevada death-row pris­on­er Scott Dozier (pic­tured), who unsuc­cess­ful­ly tried to force the state to exe­cute him, was found dead in his prison cell on January 5, 2019 of an appar­ent sui­cide. News reports indi­cat­ed that Dozier had hanged him­self. Dozier had told the court and sev­er­al reporters that he would rather die than spend life in prison and had attempt­ed to speed up his exe­cu­tion by drop­ping his appeals. However, his pri­or sui­cide attempt raised questions…

Executions

Oct 01, 2018

Finding ​“Bad Faith,” Judge Grants Injunction Preventing Nevada From Using Drug in Execution

Finding that the Nevada Department of Corrections act­ed in ​“bad faith” to obtain the drug mida­zo­lam through ​“sub­terfuge,” a Las Vegas tri­al court has issued a pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tion bar­ring the state from using its sup­ply of that drug in car­ry­ing out any exe­cu­tion. The 43-page rul­ing issued by Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez (pic­tured) on September 28, 2018 effec­tive­ly freezes efforts by Nevada pros­e­cu­tors to exe­cute Scott Dozier, who has waived his…

Executions

Dec 13, 2017

Nevada Says Fentanyl Was Easy to Obtain, But Execution Protocol Draws Criticism from Doctors, Legal Experts

As U.S. phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies have strength­ened dis­tri­b­u­tion con­trols on their med­i­cines to pre­vent their use in exe­cu­tions, states have been chang­ing their exe­cu­tion pro­to­cols in search of new or more read­i­ly avail­able drugs. That search has led Nebraska and Nevada to build their exe­cu­tion pro­to­cols around fen­tanyl—the drug known for its role in the cur­rent opi­oid cri­sis in America — and the par­a­lyt­ic cisatracuri­um, which…