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Judge in Vegas OK's setting late-July Nevada execution date

FILE - This undated file photo from the Nevada Department of Corrections shows Zane Michael Floyd, a Nevada death row inmate convicted of killing four people and wounding a fifth in a shotgun attack at a Las Vegas supermarket in 1999. Floyd who is fighting an early June execution date that would make him the first person put to death in Nevada since 2006 has filed court documents calling for the state to consider firing squad as an option. (Nevada Department of Corrections via AP, file)

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge says prosecutors in Las Vegas can set a date in late July for the first execution in Nevada in 15 years.

Court records show that on June 4 District Court Judge Michael Villani has amended the execution date for July 26.

But an attorney for the convicted mass murderer who would be put to death promised Monday to appeal that decision to the state Supreme Court.

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A federal judge also could decide Thursday to block any date for Zane Floyd's lethal injection.

Floyd is fighting not to die. He was convicted in 2000 of killing four people and wounding a fifth in a shotgun attack at a Las Vegas grocery store in 1999.

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Judge in Vegas OK's setting late-July Nevada execution date

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