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Assembly Judiciary Committee is hearing #AB395, which abolishes the death penalty in Nevada, converts all existing death sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Still an open question whether this has sufficient support to pass.

Bill presenter @SteveYeagerNV urges #nvleg to put aside their personal feelings about the death penalty and see this as a policy question. He thinks testimony will demonstrate it is costly, ineffective, retraumatizes family, convicts the innocent and has a regional bias.
@SteveYeagerNV Tom Viloria, a former prosecutor in Northern Nevada, says he used to support the death penalty. But he observed that often it's just one prosecutor who knows the full facts of the case, and choice to pursue death penalty could be tainted by desire to be "hard-nosed bulldog"
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