A judge yesterday resentenced Samuel Howard to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the robbery and fatal shooting of Las Vegas dentist George Monahan in 1980. The decision closes a legal chapter that began with Howard’s 1983 conviction and more than four decades on death row.
Judge Resentences Defendant
As reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, District Judge Jacqueline Bluth presided over an hourslong resentencing hearing yesterday and granted prosecutors’ request to impose life without parole. Howard, 77, appeared by Zoom in a blue prison uniform while family members and survivors urged the court to deliver a permanent sentence. Bluth said the decision was unusually difficult but that she could not take away “the last sliver of…..