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Bill to abolish the death penalty stalls in Nevada Senate
Nevada will not join Washington D.C. and 22 other states in abolishing the death penalty.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and Democratic leaders in the state legislature announced Thursday that Assembly Bill 395 will not pass this session.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Sunday, March 29, 2020. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Pool) @rookie rae
“At this time, there is no path forward for Assembly Bill 395 this legislative session,” Sisolak, a practicing Catholic with well-known reservations about repealing the death penalty, said. “I’ve been clear on my position that capital punishment should be sought and used less often, but I believe there are severe situations that warrant it.”
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) Nevada state lawmakers are bound by a state constitutional requirement to approve revenue-generating decisions with two-thirds majority votes, the state Supreme Court decided Thursday.
State Sens. Nicole Cannizzaro and Melanie Scheible, both Democrats from Las Vegas, work as criminal prosecutors under Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson who not only supports capital punishment, but is actively seeking an execution date for a man convicted of walking into a Las Vegas supermarket and killing four people in 1999.
Neither Cannizzaro, the state Senate Majority Leader, nor Scheible, who chairs the chamber’s Judiciary Committee, have committed to giving the bill a hearing.
Both have hinted the measure would have a better chance of meeting Friday’s crucial bill passage deadline if it were amended to address concerns raised by Gov. Steve Sisolak.
Nevada is Trying to Abolish the Death Penalty Democrats Stand In the Way
On 5/11/21 at 3:44 AM EDT My family was completely devastated, Normand, 39, told
Newsweek. I remember my dad calling a couple of days later, after they found the woman who murdered him. one of the things he shared was, I don t want to see the death penalty. I wasn t even thinking about that. And I sat with that and I was like, Yeah, he s right. It just made me anxious even thinking about it.
She added: We felt it would be more traumatizing to then put this person to death.