Scott Dozier was ready to die. Not only did the Nevada death row inmate give up appealing his 2007 death sentence for the murder of 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller, but Dozier had no reservations about the possibility of becoming the first person to be executed in the United States with the opioid fentanyl.
Dozier’s execution was delayed twice — but not because the state wanted to use fentanyl. A judge stayed the execution in 2017 after questions emerged about whether the paralytic cisatracurium would mask signs of Dozier’s suffering. Then, in July, a judge halted Dozier’s second scheduled execution after a drugmaker sued Nevada to stop the state from using one of the company’s drugs in a lethal-injection combination.
Last weekend, death row inmate Scott Dozier apparently decided he was done waiting for Nevada to kill him: Prison officials found him hanging from a bed sheet in his cell.
In 2018, Dozier was set to become the first person in the U.S. executed with fentanyl. Then his execution was postponed.
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