Lv-to-pahrump highway closing for shot at record
A stretch of highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump will be closed Saturday and Sunday for some extremely reckless driving.
Under a special permit from the Nevada Department of Transportation, Swedish super-carmaker Koenigsegg plans to use a straight, 11-mile section of state Route 160 to try to set a speed record for production cars.
To do that, the company’s ultra-exclusive, 1,360-horsepower Agera sports car will have to top the 268 mph mark set in 2010 by a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
In the process the team, also hopes to set a record for speed on an open public highway.
Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club at the southern edge of Pahrump is hosting the run. Joel Oscarson, strategic development coordinator for the driving school and club for racing enthusiasts, wasn’t available for comment Friday, but he previously told the Pahrump Valley Times that this weekend’s attempt has been in the works for about a year.
Oscarson called it “one of the most exciting events ever attempted on
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people practice without excessive supervision and practice so that we know risks are less likely.”
The judge also expressed concern about how the state would implement the dosage of drugs.
“It comes down to the dignity of an execution,” Togliatti said.
She asked lawyers in the case to return to court Monday.
Federal public defenders representing Dozier have argued that the Nevada Department of Corrections’ execution protocol includes a combination of drugs that never has been used in capital punishment.
Waisel said Dozier will stop breathing and die if he receives the fentanyl and diazepam.
“The cisatracurium is unnecessary,” the doctor said. “If he doesn’t receive the full dose, then the cisatracurium can hide signs of inadequate anesthesia, and it would cause harm.”
Waisel said the paralytic drug provides no benefit in an execution.
David Anthony, an assistant federal public defender, asked about a “substantial risk” of suffering from the use of the drug.
“We know that there have been botched executions for a number of reasons, but often they center on the inmate not getting full dosage of drugs,” Waisel said. “In actuality, the cisatracurium increases the risk of inhumane treatment.”
But the doctor also said the potential for suffering would be minimized if each of the drugs were administered properly.
A Clark County jury convicted Dozier in September 2007 of killing 22-year-old Jeremiah Miller at the now-closed La Concha Motel. In 2005, Dozier was convicted in Arizona of second-degree murder.
Dozier did not appear in court Friday, though he is expected to appear via video conference from the Ely State Prison for a Wednesday hearing. For more than a year, since his first letter to Togliatti dated Oct. 31, 2016, Dozier has not wavered in his desire for execution.
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