Nevada's death row population dropped to 82 last week after a negotiation...

Nevada's death row population dropped to 82 last week after a negotiation between prosecutors and convicted murderer Steven Kaczmarek.
Prosecutors offered Kaczmarek a deal to end an appeal. He will now serve life in prison without the possibility of parole for the September 2002 robbery and murder of Pedro Villareal.
Then 33-year-old Kaczmarek and Alisha Burns, then 15 and described as his girlfriend, met Villareal at a fast-food restaurant. Authorities said Villareal propositioned Burns for sex in exchange for $200. The three went to Villareal's apartment where Villareal was choked and then drowned.
Burns was sentenced to life in prison for her involvement in the killing, with parole eligibility after 10 years.
Kaczmarek's attorney, Karen Connolly, said she believed prosecutors offered the deal after recognizing that errors by Kaczmarek's trial attorneys, Paul Wommer and Greg Denue, might have resulted in him receiving a new penalty hearing.
Connolly said they failed to offer the jury any mitigating evidence before jurors determined Kaczmarek's fate.
She said evidence existed that Kaczmarek was physically abused by his mother's boyfriend when he was 7 years old, drank alcohol and smoked marijuana with his uncles when he was only 8 years old and had an IQ that placed him on the borderline of mild retardation.