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内华达州民主党总检察长兼州长候选人在一些最暴力的案件上与州长乔·隆巴多产生分歧
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发布于2026年10月9日 美国东部时间上午11:21am
随着选举日临近，内华达州州长竞选局势趋紧
内华达州州长乔·隆巴多做客《周六在美国》节目，讨论这场受密切关注的、他与州检察长亚伦·福特之间的州长竞选。隆巴多还批评福特对一名已定罪杀人犯的赦免请求表示支持，并概述了影响此次竞选的关键议题。
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内华达州州检察长亚伦·福特投票支持赦免多名已定罪杀人犯，其中包括犯下绑架并以行刑式手法杀害一名青少年、“快感杀人”杀害必胜客员工以及用水泥砖殴打致死另一名受害者的男子。
福特目前因一名保释期间杀害一名孕妇的持械抢劫惯犯的赦免请求而面临强烈反对。福克斯新闻数字频道对福特担任州检察长近八年来的州赦免听证会进行的审查显示，他还支持了数十名其他暴力罪犯的赦免请求，其中一些已定罪杀人犯获得了减刑、赦免或提前假释资格，而另一些人的请求则被驳回。
福特目前正在竞选内华达州下一任州长，寻求推翻现任共和党州长乔·隆巴多。他的竞选活动有望成为本届选举周期中竞争最激烈的州长选举之一。
与大多数州的州长不同，内华达州州长无权单方面赦免或减刑，这些决定权归属州赦免委员会，该委员会由州长、总检察长和内华达州最高法院大法官组成。
乔·隆巴多轻松击败六名共和党挑战者，成功获得内华达州共和党州长提名
内华达州州检察长亚伦·福特于2025年7月28日周一在拉斯维加斯东拉斯维加斯社区中心举行的州长竞选启动活动上微笑。（玛德琳·卡特/拉斯维加斯评论报）
福克斯新闻数字频道发现，自福特担任州检察长以来，他已投票赦免或大幅减刑30名已定罪杀人犯。虽然隆巴多在一些投票中与福特立场一致，但这位民主党人在支持一些最残忍的杀人犯获得宽大处理方面与共和党州长产生了分歧。
例如，福特支持一名符合假释条件的绑架杀人犯获得赦免，而隆巴多则投了反对票。
涉案罪犯迈克尔·库于1996年绑架一名16岁少年，强迫他开车前往沙漠，随后以行刑式手法将其杀害——目的只是为了偷他车上的轮毂盖。受害者被步枪击中七枪，致命一枪几乎抵着头部近距离发射。
“法官大人，我想告诉您，我不希望这些人获得自由，”受害者的母亲在2000年3月库的宣判听证会上恳求法官，“外面有很多人，很多母亲……我很害怕，因为我还有其他孩子。”
在委员会将其刑期减刑后，库最终有可能在2035年获得假释资格并重返街头——尽管他的释放仍需获得州假释委员会的批准。
福特将其作为内华达州最高执法官员的经历作为其州长竞选的核心议题。
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内华达州州检察长亚伦·福特于2025年7月28日周一在拉斯维加斯东拉斯维加斯社区中心举行的州长竞选启动活动上发表讲话。（玛德琳·卡特/拉斯维加斯评论报/论坛新闻服务 via 盖蒂图片社）
“作为总检察长，福特与联邦和地方执法部门合作起诉罪犯，保护我们的社区，”他的竞选网站写道，“他打击非法哄抬房价的企业房东，对抗大型制药公司，优先将儿童性侵犯者送入监狱，打击穿越边境贩运的芬太尼，并致力于将危险的无法追踪的幽灵枪清除出我们的街道。他解决了积压数十年的强奸试剂盒问题，并起诉了威胁我们社区安全的人口贩运者。”
共和党人可能会利用福特的一些赦免投票来挑战他塑造的公共安全斗士形象。
虽然福特在大多数赦免听证会上没有发表实质性言论，但他偶尔也会补充几句。
2022年6月，他在支持一名15岁时在武装抢劫中杀人的男子获得假释资格时表示：“我欣然投下赞成票。”福特与该男子沙奎尔·黑兹尔伍德进行了交谈，强调了这一时刻的重要性，并建议他不要辜负州政府对他的信任。
2025年9月，他将批准一名刺死17岁少年的男子获得假释资格的决定称为“再简单不过的事”。福特主持了听证会，会上证人讲述了这名杀人犯鲍比·托马斯的品格。
福特还在2025年6月的一项裁决中支持对安东尼·阿马蒂减刑，使这名已定罪杀人犯立即获得假释资格。警方和检察官将阿马蒂称为“快感杀人狂”。
阿马蒂因伏击一名护送同事回家的22岁必胜客员工而被定罪。当时在庭审现场的同事作证称，阿马蒂和他的朋友们“咯咯地笑……笑得像在开一个大玩笑”，在向受害者开了多枪后还蹦蹦跳跳。
副地区检察官克里斯托弗·拉利当时辩称，阿马蒂永远不应获得自由，因为他的罪行是“为了纯粹的快感而实施的快感杀人”。
在委员会作出裁决后，阿马蒂立即获得了假释资格，尽管他的释放并非板上钉钉。
众议院民主党议员因提前释放法案释放的囚犯后来被控谋杀而遭抨击
内华达州州长乔·隆巴多成功获得连任的共和党提名。（马里奥·塔马/盖蒂图片社）
福克斯新闻数字频道发现，福特还支持对阿兰德·吉文斯进行宽大处理，吉文斯用水泥砖将受害者殴打致死，被判处两个连续的终身监禁，但委员会最终驳回了他的申请。
福特投票支持赦免的其他已定罪杀人犯还包括一起劫车杀人案的凶手、一名因篮球比赛纠纷刺死17岁少年的男子，以及另一名以毒品交易为诱饵将受害者诱骗至家中后将其枪杀的男子。
州长候选人承诺赦免因在逃跑嫌疑人死亡事件中被控过失杀人的警察
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内华达州州检察长亚伦·福特于2024年1月10日在北拉斯维加斯的克拉克县选举部门就2024年选举安全发表讲话。（L.E.巴斯考/拉斯维加斯评论报/论坛新闻服务 via 盖蒂图片社）
隆巴多和福特在一些案件中确实投票一致支持宽大处理。例如，两人都投票赦免了一名因DNA证据洗清罪名而被判定为雇凶杀人主谋的男子。
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‘Thrill killer’ and desert executioner, meet the dozens of criminals Dem AG backed for parole: ‘No brainer’
2026-10-09 11:21am EDT / Fox News
Nevada’s Democratic AG and gubernatorial candidate broke with Gov. Joe Lombardo on some of the most violent cases
By Robert Schmad, Andrew Mark Miller Fox News
Published October 9, 2026 11:21am EDT
Nevada governor race tightens as Election Day nears
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo joins ‘Saturday in America’ to discuss his closely watched race against state Attorney General Aaron Ford. Lombardo also criticizes Ford over his support for clemency in a convicted killer’s case and outlines the issues shaping the race.
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford voted to support clemency for several convicted murderers, including men responsible for the kidnapping and execution-style killing of a teenager, the “thrill killing” of a Pizza Hut worker and the beating death of another victim with a cinder block.
Ford is currently facing backlash over his clemency bid for a convicted killer who took the life of a pregnant woman while out on bail for a series of armed robbery attacks on Vegas tourists. Now, a Fox News Digital review of state pardon hearings that took place during Ford’s nearly eight years as attorney general show him supporting clemency for dozens of other violent offenders, with some convicted killers receiving reduced sentences, pardons or earlier parole eligibility while others had their requests denied.
Ford is running to be Nevada’s next governor, seeking to oust incumbent Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo. His race is shaping up to be one of the most competitive gubernatorial elections of the cycle.
Unlike governors in most states, Nevada’s governor cannot unilaterally grant pardons or commute prison sentences, with those decisions instead resting with the state’s Board of Pardons Commissioners, made up of the governor, attorney general and Nevada Supreme Court justices.
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford smiles during his governor campaign kick off event at the East Las Vegas Community Center Monday, July 28, 2025, in Las Vegas.(Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Since becoming the state’s attorney general, Ford has voted to pardon or significantly reduce the sentences of 30 people convicted of murder, Fox News Digital found. While Lombardo has joined Ford on some of these votes, the Democrat broke with the Republican in supporting mercy for some of the most brutal killers.
Ford, for example, supported a convicted kidnapper and murderer eligible for parole when Lombardo voted against.
Michael Cu, the convict in question, kidnapped a 16-year-old in 1996, forced him to drive out to the desert, then killed him execution-style — all to steal the rims off his car. The victim was shot seven times with a rifle, with the fatal shot being fired at nearly point-blank range into his head.
“Mr. Judge I would like to tell you these people, I don’t want them to be free,” the deceased’s mother pleaded with the judge at Cu’s sentencing in March 2000. “There’s a lot of people outside, a lot of mothers outside … I’m afraid because I have more children.”
Cu could eventually make it back onto the streets after the board commuted his sentence, making him eligible for parole in 2035 — though his release would still require approval from the state’s parole board.
Ford has made his experience as Nevada’s top law enforcement official a focal point of his gubernatorial campaign.
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford speaks during his governor campaign kick off event at the East Las Vegas Community Center on Monday, July 28, 2025, in Las Vegas.(Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“As Attorney General, Ford has worked with federal and local law enforcement to prosecute criminals and protect our communities,” his campaign website reads. “He’s gone after corporate landlords who are illegally jacking up prices, taken on big drug companies, prioritized putting child predators in jail, battled fentanyl being trafficked across our borders, and fought to keep dangerous untraceable ghost guns off of our streets. He ended a decades-long rape kit back log and has prosecuted human traffickers who threaten the safety of our communities.”
Republicans may seize on some of Ford’s pardon votes to challenge the image he’s cultivated of a crusader for public safety.
While Ford offered no substantive remarks in most of the pardon hearings, he occasionally had something to add.
“I gleefully vote yes for this motion,” he said, explaining his June 2022 support to make a man who killed someone in an armed robbery when he was 15 eligible for parole. Ford talked to the man, Shaquille Hazelwood, on the importance of the moment and advised him to live up to the faith the state was placing in him.
He called his decision to grant parole eligibility to an individual who stabbed a 17-year-old to death a “no-brainer” in September 2025. Ford sponsored the hearing where witnesses spoke to the character of the murderer, Bobby Thomas.
Ford also supported a commutation for Anthony Amati, whom police and prosecutors described as a “thrill killer,” in a June 2025 decision that allowed the convicted murderer to become immediately eligible for parole.
Amati was convicted of ambushing a 22-year-old Pizza Hut worker as he walked a co-worker home. The co-worker, who was at the trial, testified that Amati and his friends “cackled … laughed like it was a big joke” and jumped around while firing multiple bullets into the victim.
Deputy District Attorney Christopher Lalli argued at the time that Amati should never be eligible to walk free because his crime was a “thrill killing … for the mere pleasure of it.”
Amati became immediately eligible for parole following the board’s decision, although his release was not guaranteed.
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Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo secured the Republican nomination for a second term.(Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Ford also supported clemency for Arlander Givens, who beat his victim to death with a cinder block and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms, but the board ultimately denied his application, Fox News Digital found.
Other convicted killers Ford voted to grant clemency included a murderer involved in a carjacking, a man who stabbed a 17-year-old to death over a basketball game and another who lured his victim into his home with the promise of a drug deal before shooting him dead, Fox News Digital found.
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford speaks about 2024 election security at the Clark County Election Department on Jan. 10, 2024, in North Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)(Getty)
Lombardo and Ford did vote together for leniency in some cases. For instance, the duo both voted to pardon a man found guilty of masterminding a contract killing after he was exonerated by DNA evidence.
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Ford’s office and his gubernatorial campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
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