The Death Penalty in Nevada

Nevada has the death penalty in law. First-degree murder (willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, killing by poison, lying in wait or torture, and certain killings during listed felonies, to avoid arrest, at schools or in terrorism) is a category A felony; death may be imposed only if one or more statutory aggravating circumstances are found and the mitigating circumstances do not outweigh them. Otherwise the sentence is life without parole, life with parole eligibility after 20 years, or a definite 50-year term with parole eligibility after 20 years. Aggravating circumstances include killing a peace officer or firefighter on duty, killing during a robbery, burglary, home invasion, kidnapping or arson, murder for hire, torture, and a victim under 14. The statute says 'The judgment of death must be inflicted by an injection of a lethal drug.'