Banks was Las Vegas Sands\u2019 vice president of casino operations, and had worked at the Venetian since 1999. She was a 54-year-old mother of two. Rodriguez is the executive director of table games at the same casino.<\/p>\n
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States Facing Legal Challenges to Lethal Injection Executions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWhile prosecutors did not cite the issue as a factor in their decision not to seek the death penalty in this case, Nevada is one of several states that has faced opposition to the use of specific — and sometimes never-before-tried — drug cocktails in lethal injections.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNevada Death Row inmate Scott Dozier was set to be executed on July 11. But that plan was postponed for at least two months after drug manufacturer Alvogen sued, saying the state had illegitimately acquired the drug midazolam, a sedative that was to be part of a three-drug combination to be used in the execution.<\/span><\/p>\nClark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ruled in favor of the company, granting a temporary restraining order. The state and the drug maker are scheduled to meet in court for another hearing on September 10.<\/span><\/p>\nThe drug cocktail was considered particularly controversial because it included fentanyl, as it would have been the first time the opioid was used in an execution. Fentanyl was later utilized as part of a four-drug combination in a lethal injection in Nebraska on August 14, again over the legal objections of a company that believed it had manufactured other drugs in the cocktail.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Wrobel, the man charged in the murder and attempted murder of two prominent Venetian casino executives on April 15, won’t face the death penalty when he has his day in court. Clark County prosecutor Pamela Weckerly says that the government won\u2019t seek the ultimate punishment for Wrobel, who\u00a0is accused of shooting both Mia Banks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":86467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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