![]() Two fellow prisoners, Felix Lorenzo and Eugene Shaw, overpowered a corrections officer and quickly armed themselves. McKenna was scheduled to be executed on December 9, 1996, but remains on death row as of 2017, the longest stint on death row for any Nevada State prisoner.Īfter he was sentenced to die for the murder of his cellmate, McKenna was briefly incarcerated at the jail annex of Las Vegas City Hall. McKenna’s death sentence was overturned on appeal twice, but on the third attempt, the penalty was upheld. Prosecutors went after McKenna, and charged him with the murder he was convicted and sentenced to die. McKenna claimed he was defending himself from a pack of wannabe gangsters who were trying to knife him for supposed disrespect, using Nobles as a human shield with a chokehold that he held for too long. Stories vary as to what caused the dispute - some say Nobles refused to perform a sex act on McKenna, some say it manifested over an argument about a chess game - but in the end, the result was the same. ![]() ![]() Drunk on jailhouse liquor and with a rising temper, McKenna got into a dispute with his cellmate, a burglary suspect named Jack “J.J.” Nobles who had been locked up for just two weeks. After being convicted of raping two women in 1979, McKenna was angry and volatile. ![]()
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