Within days, Nevada prison officials could finalize their execution protocol and disclose the lethal injection cocktail planned for the capital punishment of Zane Floyd.
David Ferrara
David Ferrara covers courts and legal affairs. He joined the newspaper in 2014 after more than six years reporting in the Deep South, where he wrote extensively about the BP oil spill. Prior to that, he worked for newspapers, magazines and a wire service in Chicago. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
International soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo wants a lawsuit with a woman who accused him of rape in a Las Vegas resort thrown out, alleging that her attorney obtained stolen documents from a hacker.
A federal judge has signed an order that could effectively put Las Vegas-based Real Water permanently out of business.
Recently retired District Judge Valerie Adair, a Las Vegas native who spent nearly two decades on the bench, died this weekend at the age of 56.
A three-time convicted killer on Nevada’s death row for nearly four decades had his sentence overturned for the second time.
Prosecutors in Las Vegas plan to decide soon whether to seek the death penalty for a teen accused of killing his girlfriend’s father.
The Nevada Supreme Court has reversed a lower court judge’s decision to throw out attempted murder and battery charges at the start of a trial.
A federal jury has convicted two men in a series of Las Vegas armed robberies at two banks and the same Starbucks coffeehouse twice.
A Boulder City man was convicted in a federal trial of assaulting his wife at a campground in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
A 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend were indicted Friday on murder charges in connection with the slaying of her father.
In response to the lawsuit, the company’s president and former Nevada legislator Brent Jones agreed to recall and destroy any Real Water products.
A judge outside Las Vegas rejected a bid for a new trial Wednesday from a convicted felon who alleged widespread corruption within Clark County’s justice system.
A former officer with the Metropolitan Police Department who admitted to stealing from a police dog fundraiser was ordered to pay thousands of dollars Wednesday and serve up to three years probation.
The Innocence Center of Nevada, which announced its launch this week, is expected to start examining claims of innocence in criminal cases next month.
A man is being freed after serving a fraction of the prison sentence he received for a conviction involving the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl.