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Complaints about capital justice delayed in Nevada

By Douglas A. Berman

Echoing a similar piece from Ohio noted earlier this week, a local station in Las Vegas has this new piece about capital justice delayed in Nevada.  The story is headlined "Victim's Families Wait Decades for Death Penalties to be Carried Out," and here are excerpts: For all practical purposes, the death penalty in Nevada functions as a sentence of life without parole.  In the last 30 years, the state has executed just one person who wasn't a volunteer.  Advocates on both sides of the issue agree the system doesn't work, but no one is more frustrated by it than the families of the victims.... [M]ore than half of the 83 inmates currently on death row have been there a decade or longer. Two have surpassed the 30 year mark.  They are delayed due to constitutionally-protected appeals of the process that put them there...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 20, 2010 (boomark / email).