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| Nevada death-row inmate: 'Just get it done' |
| By theoutlook.ca- Ken Ritter |
| Published: 08/09/2018 |
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LAS VEGAS — A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution has been postponed twice said a legal fight over his fate is taking a tortuous toll on him and his family and he just wants his sentence carried out. The state should "just get it done, just do it effectively and stop fighting about it," Scott Raymond Dozier told The Associated Press. "I want to be really clear about this. This is my wish," Dozier said in a brief telephone call from Ely State Prison. "They should stop punishing me and my family for their inability to carry out the execution." Dozier's comments Wednesday came a month after a judge in Las Vegas postponed his execution at nearly the final hour. Nevada law calls for capital punishment by lethal injection. But pharmaceutical companies nationwide have objected to their medicines being used in executions. On Thursday, a third drug company is due to ask Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez to let it join with two other firms suing to block the use of their products for a three-drug lethal injection. Read More. |
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