Nevada court: Inmate no longer eligible for death penalty

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that a death row inmate convicted in the 1980 robbery-killing of a man for $2 is no longer eligible for capitol punishment and must be resentenced. The Nevada justices ruled Thursday that a New York court’s recent erasure of Samuel Howard’s lone conviction for a violent crime took the death penalty off the table for his Nevada murder conviction. Howard could be sentenced to life with our without possibility of parole. The 73-year-old Howard has been on death row for nearly 40 years for the 1980 fatal shooting of Las Vegas dentist George Monahan during a robbery.