DIY at Its Finest! Nevada Refuses to Kill Convict, Convict Does the Job For Them

The country needs more criminals like this one. After waiting for almost 12 years for the state of Nevada to finally follow through on a death sentence he was given, double murderer Scott Raymond Dozier decided to take matters into his own hands. While the bleeding hearts of the justice system debated and bickered and worried about how to humanely do away with him, Dozier did us all a favor and apparently hanged himself in his cell on Saturday thus sparing tax payers the responsibility of supporting his worthless ass.

Via AP News 

Nevada inmate whose execution called off found dead in cell

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A twice-convicted murderer who had repeatedly said he wanted to die by lethal injection was found dead in his death-row prison cell from an apparent hanging, officials said Saturday.

Scott Raymond Dozier, 48, was found unresponsive in his solo death-row cell at the state’s maximum-security prison in Ely, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Santina told The Associated Press.

Dozier’s lawyer, Thomas Ericsson, declined to comment immediately.

Dozier had said repeatedly he wanted to die rather than live the rest of his life in prison. Nevada officials said he tried to kill himself several times after two scheduled lethal injections were postponed.

“I’ve been very clear about my desire to be executed … even if suffering is inevitable,” Dozier said in a handwritten note to a state court judge who postponed his execution in November 2017 over concerns the untried drug regimen could leave him suffocating, conscious and unable to move.

“Just get it done, just do it effectively and stop fighting about it,” the frustrated inmate told The Associated Press in a telephone interview last August, a month after a different judge stopped his execution at nearly the final hour.

But his bid to become the first Nevada inmate put to death since 2006 was called off twice amid court fights over a three-drug combination that had never been used in the U.S.: the sedative midazolam, the powerful opioid fentanyl and a muscle-paralyzing agent called cisatracurium.

Fentanyl is a drug blamed for illegal-use, drug overdose deaths nationwide.

The starts-and-stops in Dozier’s case propelled Nevada to the top of a national debate about the death penalty and shed light on extraordinary efforts some states take to try to obtain drugs from pharmaceutical companies that insist they don’t want their products used for executions.

Dozier gave up appeals for the death sentence he received in 2007 for separate killings of methamphetamine drug trade associates in 2002 in Phoenix and Las Vegas.

But he allowed federal public defenders to challenge on his behalf the method that state officials planned to use.

Those advocates argued that his lethal injection could be less humane than putting down a pet.

Drug companies joined the fight — with cases still pending before state courts and the Nevada Supreme Court. They argue their products should not be used in an execution.

I suppose all this concern about being humane is well-intentioned, but seriously I don’t understand it. Let’s take a look at the details of this thug’s first murder and you tell me if you think he was deserving of a quick death. Wikipedia tells us that, “On April 18, 2002, Jeremiah Miller met Dozier at La Concha, a motel on the Las Vegas Strip. Dozier had promised to help Miller buy ephedrine, a key ingredient in the production of methamphetamine. Miller had brought $12,000 in cash for that purpose. Upon Miller’s arrival at La Concha, Dozier killed him (likely by shooting), sawed Miller’s body into multiple pieces, stuffed most of them into a suitcase, and disposed of it near an apartment complex in western Las Vegas. The suitcase was discovered by a worker the following week. Miller’s head and arms were never found.”

Pretty unsavory to say the least. And while I won’t shed a tear over Miller’s demise, as he was obviously a meth cook and therefore not worthy of existing in our society, what Dozier did was horrific and he was sentenced to death for it. So why must we be so concerned whether or not an animal like this one suffers during his execution? Certainly Dozier wasn’t concerned about Miller’s pain when he shot him and cut him into bits.

Nevada has drawn backing in the state high court fight from 15 of the 30 other states in the U.S. with capital punishment. Friend-of-the-court briefs argue that harassment from advocacy groups and threats of company boycotts are keeping prison officials from enforcing the will of voters in states that have the death penalty.

Dozier, meanwhile, made it clear that he didn’t like legal limbo.

He didn’t want to be left hanging . . .

Last month, state lawyers revealed in a separate federal lawsuit over Dozier’s treatment behind bars that that he had tried several methods to kill himself in recent months, including attempting to obtain drops of a deadly drug on a piece of paper sent through prison mail.

The filings were in a lawsuit that challenged Dozier’s housing on suicide watch in an isolation cell.

The state insisted the isolation was to protect Dozier from self-harm, but his lawyers argued he was deteriorating due to unconstitutional treatment. They said he was denied prison yard recreation time and the ability to read, communicate with his family or effectively consult with legal counsel.

Poor baby. So fucking what? You want to talk about deterioration? Imagine the state his second victim’s body was in “whose remains were found in a plastic container in the desert north of Phoenix.” It gets pretty hot in the desert and who knows how long it was out there. So again, why do we care if this guy suffers while waiting for his execution or during it?

Dozier’s lawyers also revealed that he apparently cut his neck and wrist with a razor in October.

Prison officials reported that Dozier somehow obtained razor blades behind bars and that they had intercepted mail from Dozier’s sister with instructions on how to cut the jugular vein in his neck.

Good ol’, sis. What a nice family the Doziers are! Maybe it’s things like this that lead prison officials to prevent him from communicating with them? Just a wild guess.

Dozier was not on suicide watch Saturday, Santina said. He was found at 4:35 p.m. at the prison in Ely, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of Las Vegas.

The prisons spokeswoman said she didn’t immediately know when Dozier had last been seen by guards.

Santina said that would be part of investigations by the department’s inspector general and White Pine County sheriff’s office.

So despite this guy’s noble efforts to save the taxpayers money, now they’re going to waste more time and money investigating the death of a monster who was going to die anyway! Who cares when he was last seen? He did everyone a favor. Just let it go. Don’t worry about giving me the results of your investigation. I won’t waste my time hanging around waiting for them.