Due to the first-degree murder charge — along with the attempted murder with a deadly weapon charge — Wrobel’s case potentially meets the capital murder criteria for a death penalty case. Per Nevada statute, that entails “knowingly [creating] a great risk of death to more than one person by means of a weapon, device or course of action which would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nNevada will soon be performing its first sanctioned execution on a death row inmate since 2006, when inmate Scott Dozier is put to death on July 11. In May, the state’s Supreme Court removed the remaining legal barriers to Dozier’s self-requested execution, and on June 19, a district judge signed the death warrant.<\/p>\n
Nevada’s Death Row, at Ely State Prison, includes a new $860,000 execution chamber constructed in 2016. It hasn’t been used, however, as the lethal drugs required for the executions under state law are no longer being sold to states for such use.<\/p>\n
Tom Ericcson, legal counsel for Dozier, says despite some controversy over the medical cocktail slated to be used to kill his client, the execution will likely go ahead as planned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not aware of anything else that is going to be done,\u201d Ericsson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.<\/em> \u201cScott doesn\u2019t want anything else to be done.\u201d<\/p>\nA prison spokesperson told the RJ<\/em> that she was unaware which drugs would be used to carry out the execution. Many states have struggled with controversy in recent years after major pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer refused to sell their products to be used in such cases, leaving less proven methods that have frequently resulted in prolonged and sometimes gruesome deaths of inmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Wrobel — the former Venetian dealer who is accused of murdering his superior and severely injuring another — was back in Las Vegas court, facing homicide charges earlier today. He was returned by law enforcement after losing a two-month extradition battle while incarcerated in Vega, Texas, where he’d initially been apprehended. Prison records show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":82049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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