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Execution of Quadruple Murderer ‘Possible But Highly Unlikely’
Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | February 3, 2022 | Katelyn Newberg

Posted on 02/04/2022 12:16:13 AM PST by nickcarraway

State officials on Thursday said its unlikely that prosecutors will be able to obtain a warrant to carry out death row inmate Zane Floyd’s execution before Nevada’s supply of one of the lethal injection drugs expires.

“It’s theoretically possible but highly unlikely,” Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Alexander Chen said during a hearing in U.S. District Court.

Floyd, who was sentenced to die for fatally shooting four people and gravely wounding another at a Las Vegas grocery store more than two decades ago, has multiple appeals in front of the Nevada Supreme Court. The high court would have to make decisions in all of them in just over a week in order for prosecutors to obtain the warrant.

Because a warrant has to be granted at least two weeks before an intended execution, prosecutors would have to obtain the order by Feb. 13 in order to carry out Floyd’s sentence before the state’s supply of ketamine expires on Feb. 28, Chief Deputy Attorney General Randall Gilmer said.

Officials have indicated they would be unable to acquire additional ketamine, which is an anesthetic similar to PCP, once the current supply expires.

The plan to execute Floyd calls for a combination of drugs never been used to carry out a death sentence. Experts called by Floyd’s lawyers during an evidentiary hearing in November testified that the drugs could cause extreme suffering while Floyd is paralyzed and suffocating.

The drug cocktail also includes the painkiller fentanyl or the similar drug alfentanil, and potassium chloride or potassium acetate. According to court documents, the proposed protocol from the Department of Corrections indicates that the state also may use cisatracurium, a paralytic drug.

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1 posted on 02/04/2022 12:16:13 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

VACCINATE HIM!


2 posted on 02/04/2022 12:18:38 AM PST by cherry (;)
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To: nickcarraway
[...] before Nevada’s supply of one of the lethal injection drugs expires

What is its "Best When Used Before" date?

Come on, folks! Who hasn't occasionally used a bottle of, say, maple syrup whose expiration date has already elapsed?

Regards,

3 posted on 02/04/2022 12:44:02 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: nickcarraway
Just put him down like he did those he murdered.....

he's had 20 yrs plus past the time he should have been put down.

Here' he is 20 yrs ago


4 posted on 02/04/2022 1:01:19 AM PST by caww ( )
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To: alexander_busek

On June 3, 1999, at approximately 5:15 in the morning, Floyd entered an Albertson’s supermarket located in Las Vegas and opened fire on random individuals in the store using a shotgun.

Floyd had shot seven shotgun shells, killing four people and critically wounding another. Floyd left the supermarket approximately seven minutes after he entered.

When questioned by police, Floyd confessed to the killings and said that he committed the murders because he had always wanted to know what it was like to kill someone


5 posted on 02/04/2022 1:08:25 AM PST by caww ( )
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To: nickcarraway
the drugs could cause extreme suffering

That should be a goal, not a problem.

6 posted on 02/04/2022 1:15:38 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: All

Couldn’t you use a large amount of sleeping pills? Or even the the stuff they used to put me under for a procedure? Propofol(I believe).


7 posted on 02/04/2022 1:19:45 AM PST by deek69
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To: nickcarraway

A nice hank of rope and a sturdy tree limb.


8 posted on 02/04/2022 1:34:43 AM PST by Tagurit (Are your pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?)
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To: nickcarraway

A .44 magnum close range right between the eyes, he wouldn’t feel a thing. Liberals are scumbags; they aren’t interested in preventing suffering in those who are guilty but in prolonging it in those who are innocent, namely, the families. The innocent are their favorite targets.


9 posted on 02/04/2022 1:55:00 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: deek69

Straight Nitrogen...


10 posted on 02/04/2022 2:35:15 AM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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To: nickcarraway

5 gallons of gas and a match works for me.I’ll donate the gas and a box of matches


11 posted on 02/04/2022 3:50:07 AM PST by trashiscash
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To: cherry
VACCINATE HIM!

Two doses and a booster stat!

12 posted on 02/04/2022 3:51:36 AM PST by DaBroasta
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To: alexander_busek

It isn’t safe to use expired medicine. Someone might get hurt.

Hard to believe the total lack of logic. If you are worried about the drug getting weak just double the dose. We need to put effort into preventing murder, not protecting murderers.


13 posted on 02/04/2022 4:41:36 AM PST by AlbertWang
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To: caww

The victims family should decide his fate excluding forgiveness. an eye for an eye. how ever you murdered so shall you be


14 posted on 02/04/2022 4:42:28 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: LibWhacker
The plan to execute Floyd calls for a combination of drugs never been used to carry out a death sentence.

In a similar vein, so to speak, one could also use a combination of that has been used to carry out a death sentence in the past. How about a lead and copper cocktail?

15 posted on 02/04/2022 4:59:09 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: nickcarraway

The local Home Depot can provide all sorts of chemicals that will do it.


16 posted on 02/04/2022 5:34:05 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: nickcarraway
Officials have indicated they would be unable to acquire additional ketamine

Any scumbag date rapist can get all the "K" he wants, but officials cannot? BS!

17 posted on 02/04/2022 6:52:06 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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