The United States sentenced to death who wants to die and does not execute it – 07/12/2018

"I was very clear about my desire to be executed … even though suffering is inevitable" Scott Raymond Dozier writes in a note to a judge of the Court of 39 State that postponed its execution in November 2007, considering that the injection, untested before, could smother it.

More than ten years ago, on June 8, Dozier repeated his desire to die during a brief telephone conversation with the newspaper Las Vegas Review-Journal : "The life in prison is not life " says the 47-year-old prisoner," it's just survival ".

"It's been a long time, your honor, I'm ready," was Scott Dozier's answer when Judge Jennifer Togliatti announced the date on which she would be executed at the State Prison of 39, Ely Nevada. Wednesday, July 11, 2018.

But they could not fulfill the desire of this 47-year-old man.

In the early hours of this Thursday, the state of Nevada, who was trying to execute his first inmate in 12 years, using an unproven drug combination, he returned to the process, and Dozier , convicted of two murders returned to death row after a court delayed his lethal injection.

Scott Raymond Dozier's attorney, Thomas Ericsson, said on Wednesday that he was "a big eight" for his client, his family and two close friends that he did not know. he met Believing it would be his last day on Earth, in a remote town prison in Ely, in northeastern Nevada. They learned the cancellation six hours before the scheduled time

Dozier, whose execution was postponed in November due to concerns about the drugs used and who tried to committing suicide in the past in prison with an overdose of an antidepressant, something that did not kill him but kept him in a coma for two weeks, was disappointed said Ericsson

Wednesday's delay came after Nevada announced last week that it would replace the outdated diazepam sets, commonly referred to as Valium with sedative midazolam. This prompted the death penalty experts to worry that Dozier was sufficiently oblivious not to react to the pain when fentanyl was administered.

The manufacturer of Midazolam, the drug company Alvogen of New Jersey, filed a lawsuit. a state court alleging that the Nevada government had illegally obtained the drug for unauthorized purposes.

The delay forces Nevada to rethink its options and to reopen a debate on how the 31 states' capital punishment will apply at a time when manufacturers can prohibit their drugs being used for this purpose.

But who is this killer who wants to die and does not perform it?

Son of a federal water engineer, he grew up in Boulder City, Nevada, and attended Phoenix High School. He is a veteran of the army and retired with honors. He later became an ambulance attendant during the high-risk pregnancy of his wife at the time. He was then a pastry cook, landscaper and manufacturer and distributor of methamphetamine.

He was badually badaulted by a 5-7 year old . He was diagnosed with an antisocial personality disorder with narcissistic features. With Angela Drake, his ex-wife, he had a son. Now also has a granddaughter

The death penalty came for stealing, killing and dismembering Jeremiah Miller, 22, at a Las Vegas motel in 2002 Murderer was found with the $ 12,000 that the boy had brought.

Miller had come to Nevada from Phoenix to buy ingredients to make methamphetamine. His dismembered torso was found inside a suitcase in a dumpster of an apartment complex. Her legs and hands were missing. The torso was identified by tattoos on the shoulders. His head was never found, although one informant told the police that Dozier had presumed that he had put her in a bucket of cement.

After his arrest for Miller's death, he was charged with the murder of Jasen Greene, a 26-year-old man whose body was found dismembered and buried in the Arizona desert. One witness said that Dozier used a Greene hammer to put the body in a plastic bag that Dozier used to transport methamphetamine and chemicals.

Dozier has always denied being responsible for this second death. According to his story, at the request of a friend, he gave Greene accommodation in the caravan that he used to prepare methamphetamines. One day, when he arrived, he was found dead but decided to bury him instead of telling the police to prevent him from discovering his case with drugs.

"I'm tired of being the pawn of others." The authorities spent millions of dollars condemning me to death and then millions of dollars did not kill me . That makes no sense, "said Dozier a few days ago

Early this morning, Nevada hoped to release the new execution hall of Ely's Prison, which cost $ 860,000. But Dozier's execution did not occur

They were going to apply a previously untested badtail of midazolam (a sedative), fentanyl (an opioid) and cisatracurium (a neuromuscular paralytic). [19459005

The problem was cisatracurium, a product that could cause a drowning sensation in Dozier and, according to one expert, caused "cruel suffering and suffering", leading the inmate to have "a horrible experience". [19659002] The American Civil Liberties Union has also questioned the l & # 39; use of midazolam, previously used in problematic executions in at least 7 states of the country, where convicted took time to die and, before that, gave visible samples of the suffering.

Dozier did not care. "There was nothing that happened last year, including discussions about drugs, their effectiveness … the fact that those used in other states have led to problematic, lengthy and possibly painful executions? "None of this deterred you from asking me to sign this order?" Judge Togliatti asked him in July of last year before giving the green light to his death.

"Frankly, your honor" Dozier replied:

His wish was suspended indefinitely.