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~ Scott Dozier, 06Jan19, (NV) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: June 27, 2018, 9:40 pm
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Scott Dozier Just Wants Nevada to Kill Him Already--
January 23, 2018
It's a death-row fact that is likely to surprise: In five
states—Connecticut, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and South
Dakota—only one type of condemned man has been put to death
since the 1970's: a "volunteer." That's legal-world parlance for
a person who has been sentenced to die and has given up his or
her appeals. Scott Dozier is 47 and ready to die. It's not that
he wants to be dead. "I just would rather be dead than do this."
And not that his days are awful: He listens to NPR and music by
St. Vincent, watches PBS, makes art with pastels, and works out
so much a judge once joked about how fit he is. But he's been
sitting on death row in Ely State Prison for a decade over the
2002 murder and dismembering of a 22-year-old man in a crime
tied to meth making.
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Re: ~ Scott Dozier, 06Jan19, (NV) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: January 6, 2019, 9:25 am
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Nevada death-row inmate found dead in cell after execution
called off--
Sunday, January 6, 2019
A Nevada inmate sentenced to death in 2007 for committing
drug-related murders in Phoenix and Las Vegas, and who had tried
several times to kill himself after two scheduled lethal
injections were postponed, was found dead hanging from a
bedsheet Saturday, officials said.
Scott Raymond Dozier, 48, was found unresponsive in the
death-row cell he was housed in by himself at the state's
maximum-security prison in Ely, the Nevada Department of
Corrections said. He was pronounced dead at 4:35 p.m. after
medical staff attempted to treat him, FOX5 Las Vegas reported.
Dozier, whose execution had been delayed twice, had previously
said the fight over his fate was taking a toll on him and his
family and the state should "just get it done."
“They should stop punishing me and my family for their inability
to carry out the execution,” Dozier told the Associated Press in
an interview last August, a month after a judge stopped his
execution at nearly the final hour.
Dozier’s first scheduled execution by lethal injection had been
postponed in November 2017 over concerns the untried drug
regimen could leave him suffocating, conscious and unable to
move.
Trapped in a legal limbo, Dozier’s fate was put on hold as court
fights ensued over a three-drug combination that had never been
used in the U.S.: the sedative midazolam, the powerful opioid
fentanyl and a muscle-paralyzing agent called cisatracurium.
Pharmaceutical companies also objected to their medicines being
used in capital punishment.
"I've been very clear about my desire to be executed ... even if
suffering is inevitable," Dozier said in a handwritten note to a
state court judge who postponed his execution in November 2017.
Dozier had repeatedly made it clear that he would rather die
than spend the rest of his life in prison and during the delays
in his execution had even attempted to take his own life.
A federal lawsuit revealed last December that he had tried
several methods to kill himself in recent months, including a
bid to obtain drops of a deadly drug on a piece of paper sent
through prison mail.
Lawyers for the death-row inmate also revealed that he
apparently cut his neck and wrist with a razor in October.
Prison officials said they intercepted mail from Dozier’s sister
which detailed how to cut the jugular vein in his neck.
While Dozier was placed in isolation to prevent self-harm, his
lawyers argued in the suit that it only made his condition
deteriorate because of unconstitutional treatment. They said he
was denied prison yard recreation time and the ability to read,
communicate with his family or effectively consult with legal
counsel.
Dozier wasn’t on suicide watch Saturday, Department of
Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Santina said. It wasn’t
immediately known when Dozier had last been seen by guards.
The department’s inspector general and White Pine County
sheriff's office are investigating the death.
Source:
HTML http://www.foxnews.com/us/nevada-death-row-inmate-found-dead-in-cell-after-execution-called-off
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