CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for Gregory N. Leonard, convicted of the strangling death of Tony Antee in January 1995.
The court, in 4-1 decision, rejected the Leonard’s appeal that his lawyer was ineffective. There were two mistrials before a jury reached its decision in a third trial.
Leonard had been convicted previously in the slaying of another man in the same apartment complex in November 1994 and was sentenced to death in that case.