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July 28, 2009
Las Vegas Convict Spared Death Penalty
Eugene Nunnery, a twenty-nine year old who was convicted of first-degree murder, among other charges, for the 2006 killing of a drug dealer who swindled him, will not be put to death.
A jury at Clark County District Court had been deliberating for ten hours over whether Nunnery should be sentenced to the death penalty, life in prison without parole, life in prison with the possibility of parole, or a forty-to-one-hundred-year prison sentence. Yesterday, the jury revealed they were deadlocked.
District Judge Elissa Cadish at Clark County District Court announced that she will impose a life sentence without the possibility of parole on Nunnery tomorrow.
