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Nevada Plans to Execute Death Row Inmate With Powerful Opiate Fentanyl

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Medical professionals say the state’s new lethal injection protocol “doesn’t make much sense.”

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This story was published by the Marshall Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization covering the criminal justice system.

Nearly a year ago, Nevada death row inmate Scott Dozier asked to be executed, telling a state court judge he would forego his appeals.

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