Anderson v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Bat jer, J.:

The appellant was convicted of first degree murder on September 14, 1969, and the jury assessed the death penalty. On December 10, 1970, we affirmed that conviction. Anderson v. State, 86 Nev. 829, 477 P.2d 595 (1970). Prior to the execution of the sentence, the United States Supreme Court filed its opinion in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), declaring the death penalty as it had been applied to be in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, and ordering resentencing. See Robinson v. Neil, 409 U.S. 505 (1973);…