Nebraska to EXECUTE Nikko Jenkins for Brutal 10-Day Killing Spree.NO MERCY, Death Row US………

A Douglas County judge has rejected the appeal of Nico Jenkins, a Nebraska spree killer who is running out of options to avoid his death sentence. Jenkins faces the death penalty for the 2013 murders of four people in Omaha.

In 2020, he raised seven issues in an attempt to change his fate, but a judge recently found that none required further examination or hearings. This ruling includes his claim that his attorney failed to present evidence of his mental health factors, with the judge citing records that showed extensive evidence had already been presented during his trial.

The latest decision also ends Jenkins’s request to fund a mental evaluation, which he had submitted roughly four months prior. In March of last year, Jenkins wrote a letter to the courts asking to be put to death and to end all appeals, only to change his mind in court a month later. Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine called the decision a step in the right direction and expressed relief that the state can finally close the door on this case.

During the summer of 2013, four people were shot and killed across three different neighborhoods in Omaha, Nebraska. The victims had nothing in common: two were young Hispanic men from South Omaha who attended church and supported their families; one was a 22-year-old from North Omaha who thought he was spending time with a friend; and the last was a 33-year-old mother of three driving home from her bartending shift at two in the morning.

What made these crimes unlike anything Omaha had seen before was not just the body count or the speed with which they occurred, but everything the state of Nebraska knew and chose to ignore beforehand. Nikko Jenkins had spent ten and a half years in the state prison system, locked in solitary confinement for 22 to 23 hours a day.

For the final two years of his sentence, authorities considered him too dangerous to share a cafeteria with other convicted felons. Three separate psychiatrists evaluated him and reached the exact same conclusion: this man would kill if released. One psychiatrist stated in the plainest terms possible that Jenkins was psychotic and delusional, explicitly stating his intention to kill people—a warning the doctor fully believed.

Jenkins’s own mother begged the state to commit her son to a psychiatric hospital. Jenkins himself wrote letters to prison officials, prosecutors, and judges, stating that he did not want to be released because he was afraid of what he would do.

He also claimed he was going to consume people, specifically targeting Christians and Catholics. Yet, nobody acted on these warnings.

On July 30, 2013, the state of Nebraska opened the prison gates and released Nikko Allen Jenkins directly from solitary confinement onto the streets of Omaha without a parole officer, a treatment plan, or supervision of any kind.

Twelve days later, Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz were dead in a pickup truck at Spring Lake Park. They were 26 and 29 years old.

They had been lured to the location by Jenkins’s sister and cousin, who pretended to arrange a date. Jenkins walked up to the truck with a shotgun loaded with deer slugs, shot both men in the head, turned their pockets inside out, and walked away.

Eight days after that, 22-year-old Curtis Bradford was found dead behind a garage in North Omaha. He had met Jenkins in prison and considered him a friend, even posing for a photo with him that was posted on Facebook less than 24 hours before Jenkins shot him in the back of the head.

Two days later, 33-year-old Andrea Krueger was killed in the road at 168th and Fort Streets. She was a wife and a mother of three children: Jaden, Ava, and Hartley.

She had just locked up the bar where she worked and was driving home when Jenkins and his uncle rushed her vehicle and pulled her out before Jenkins shot her four times. His sister Erica, who was driving the getaway car, called him afterward not to express horror, but to complain about why he didn’t move the body into the ditch, calling his actions stupid.

This resulted in four victims over ten days, carried out by a family of criminals working together like a unit while a state that had received every warning imaginable did nothing.

Jenkins confessed to all four killings during an eight-hour interrogation, claiming the murders were sacrifices to Apophis, an ancient Egyptian serpent god. He provided details that only the perpetrator could know.

Later, he filed a $24 million lawsuit against the state of Nebraska for releasing him. His family fell alongside him: his sister Erica received a life sentence, his mother Lorie received ten years for buying the ammunition, his uncle Warren received forty years, and his cousin Christine received twenty years.

During the subsequent state investigation, Senator Ernie Chambers stated what the correctional system refused to admit: if Nikko’s or his mother’s request for commitment had been granted, four people would still be walking this earth.

Before examining whether the system failed or whether Nikko Jenkins was always destined to destroy, there is a context that must be understood about a family descended from a tribal leader who once stood before Congress to fight for his people’s land rights.

In the early 1900s, the Levering family name carried respect across Nebraska, primarily due to one man: Levi Levering, an Omaha tribal leader whose influence stretched from the reservation town of Macy, Nebraska, all the way to Washington, D.C.

In 1911, Levi became the first Native American commissioner to the Presbyterian General Assembly, and nine years later, in 1920, he stood before members of Congress to successfully lobby for legislation protecting tribal members’ land rights. He was a man who understood institutions and how to work within them to protect his community, building a legacy rooted in service, dignity, and advocacy.

The family settled in Omaha, and for decades the Levering name continued to carry weight. However, as the 20th century progressed, the family began to fracture as poverty, alcohol, and drug use became constant presences in Levering households.

The structures Levi had built—the respect, standing, and connection to tribal identity—began to erode, with each generation drifting further from his foundation.

By the 1970s and 1980s, the Levering descendants in Omaha were no longer known for advocacy, but were instead known to law enforcement as traffic violations and theft charges accumulated. These initial offenses were mostly nonviolent petty crimes that cycled family members through the Douglas County court system and back onto the streets.

Among the Levering descendants growing up during this period was a girl named Lorie Jenkins. She was young when she had her first child with her boyfriend, David A. Magee Sr., who was 15 years older than her at 31 while she was 16.

They never married and fought constantly. On September 16, 1986, in Denver, Colorado, Lorie gave birth to her second child, a boy named Nikko Allen Jenkins, who was the second of what would eventually be six children.

Within a few years, the family relocated from Denver to Omaha, settling into the broader Levering enclave on the city’s north side. Nikko inherited the Levering blood and name, but rather than the legacy Levi Levering had built, he inherited the one his recent descendants had created in its place.

The household Nikko grew up in was defined by severe conflict. His father, David Magee, had his own criminal record, including a conviction for terroristic threats, while Lorie was accumulating charges of her own.

The parents fought constantly and violently, with Lorie later describing the relationship as filled with significant domestic abuse. Both parents filed protection orders against each other at various points, making daily violence the primary atmosphere in which the children were raised.

Nikko’s extended family on his mother’s side reinforced these patterns, as his uncles were convicted felons. One uncle, Warren Levering, was later convicted in Oklahoma of assault with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, and domestic abuse by strangulation, having fathered seven children with six different women across multiple states, while another uncle was on parole.

The adults in Nikko’s life modeled a world where aggression was the default response to every problem. On September 24, 1993, seven-year-old Nikko Jenkins brought a loaded .25 caliber handgun to Highland Elementary School and was taken into custody, an incident that made local news.

The following year, when Nikko was eight, Lorie took him for a psychiatric evaluation that revealed issues far deeper than bringing a weapon to school.

Clinicians documented a child consumed by anger and fear, experiencing both suicidal and homicidal thoughts, specifically recording his statements about taking a gun and shooting his peers.

At just eight years old, Nikko was describing fantasies of mass violence in clinical terms. He had also been accused of chasing his sister around the house with a butcher knife and telling family members that he wished both he and they were dead.

The evaluation depicted a child in profound psychological distress whose environment had already pushed him past the point where normal developmental interventions were likely to be effective.

However, the mental health system of the early 1990s did not respond with the necessary urgency; he was evaluated, his symptoms were documented, and he was promptly sent back to the same home and family conditions that had fostered those symptoms.

As Nikko progressed through elementary school, his behavior continued to deteriorate as he began regularly skipping school in a manner that reflected a child operating completely outside the boundaries of normal childhood.

The school system referred him for placement, sending him to a group home in Papillion, Nebraska—a supervised residential facility intended to provide structure for troubled children.

The placement failed to offer stability, as Nikko assaulted other children, acted unpredictably, and violently resisted authority, ultimately being forced to leave in February 1998 at age eleven after whipping another child with a clothes hanger.

By age twelve, Nikko attacked someone with a knife, triggering his formal entry into the juvenile justice system. He was shuffled between his parents’ home and state-run youth detention centers, with each placement ending in another act of violence, escape attempt, or failure to contain him.

After his probation was revoked, fourteen-year-old Nikko was sent in August 2001 to the Youth Rehabilitation and Treatment Center in Kearney, Nebraska—a state-run lockdown facility for juveniles whose behavior was too severe for foster care, group homes, or standard probation.

He spent approximately six months at the Kearney facility before being returned to his family in 2002, a move that immediately resulted in chaos.

Shortly after Nikko returned home, David Magee reported to authorities that his 15-year-old son had threatened him with a shotgun. That same year, Nikko committed two armed carjackings in West Omaha.

The first targeted a woman in the Regency area, where Nikko approached her with a weapon and took her vehicle by force alongside his sister Erica and another relative, Velita Levering.

The second carjacking followed the same calculated method of displaying a weapon and stealing a vehicle, demonstrating that these were not impulsive panic responses, but deliberate acts by a teenager willing to use violence alongside a supportive network of criminal family members.

Investigators identified Nikko, Erica, and Velita Levering as the perpetrators of the carjackings, leading to their arrests.

Due to the severity of the crimes involving weapons and direct threats, prosecutors pushed to try Nikko outside the juvenile system, arguing that his history of violence, failed placements, and prior weapons offenses made him unfit for juvenile court.

The court agreed, and in 2003, 16-year-old Nikko Jenkins was tried as an adult and sentenced to between 18 and 21 years in prison. Having entered the juvenile system at age seven with a loaded gun at school, his continuous escalation culminated in the court determining he was too dangerous for the community and belonged in an adult prison.

In Nebraska’s restrictive housing units, cells ranged from roughly 9 by 18 feet in newer facilities to even smaller spaces in the older control unit at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, furnished with only a bed, toilet, and sink where inmates ate, slept, and existed continuously.

Daily recreation was limited to one hour in a small enclosed area when permitted. Prolonged solitary confinement consistently exacerbates existing mental health conditions and can induce new ones, acting as a pressure cooker for someone with childhood trauma, documented homicidal urges, and untreated mental illness.

Inside the correctional system, Jenkins became an uncontrollable inmate who assaulted prisoners, participated in gang activity, applied illicit tattoos, and crafted a weapon from a toilet brush handle, adding continuous disciplinary time that kept him locked in restrictive housing as he transitioned from youth to adult institutions.

Erica Jenkins had been charged alongside Nikko and Velita Levering for the 2002 Regency carjacking while she was still a minor who had helped her brother steal a vehicle at gunpoint.

Sentenced to time in the Nebraska juvenile correctional system, Erica immediately demonstrated that confinement would not reform her, frequently confronting staff and clashing with other juveniles with the same explosive temper that defined her brother.

Having absorbed the same household lessons that aggression was the primary way to achieve goals and that authority was to be challenged, Erica developed a reputation for being physical, confrontational, and exceptionally volatile.

Erica displayed a distinct enthusiasm for violence, actively gravitating toward physical confrontation rather than committing crimes purely out of desperation.

Guards watched her carefully and other inmates avoided her, while her relationship with Nikko remained the most significant bond in her life.

The siblings maintained contact through letters, occasional facility overlaps, and family networks, sharing an environment where violence served as currency and loyalty required participation in harm.

The surrounding family network maintained their own criminal trajectories during this time. Their uncle, Warren Levering, was in his 50s with decades of prison time, including an Oklahoma conviction for assault with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, and domestic abuse by strangulation.

Their cousin, Christine Bordeaux, had accumulated nearly 30 criminal convictions, including three felonies, and had previously been sanctioned by housing authorities after her residence was used to shoot a BB gun at pedestrians.

Their mother, Lorie, served as the logistical glue for the family, purchasing necessary items and providing continuous compliance and support while her children carried out the physical violence.

By 2009, Nikko had been incarcerated in the Nebraska Correctional System for six years while Erica remained incarcerated at a separate facility.

Prison doctors prescribed Nikko psychiatric medication to manage his severe mood swings and erratic behavior, but they treated his symptoms without ever issuing a definitive diagnosis or ordering a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation.

In December 2009, Jenkins refused his medication, and under prison policy, he could not be forcibly medicated because he was not deemed to be in an active, immediate physical crisis at that specific moment.

That same year, Nikko’s father, David Magee, passed away, leaving Nikko to process the loss alone in solitary confinement without grief counseling or therapy.

Weeks later, on December 12, 2009, his grandmother Norma Anne Levering died, and the corrections department granted furloughs to both Nikko and Erica to attend the funeral under guard.

At the funeral home, when an officer uncuffed one of Nikko’s hands so he could use the restroom, Nikko and Erica launched a sudden, coordinated assault on the guards, injuring an officer and resulting in additional charges of assault on a correctional officer against Nikko.

The attack demonstrated that Jenkins was willing to assault armed corrections officers and that he and Erica could execute violent acts as a unit without prior verbal planning.

The incident prompted a transfer to the Douglas County Jail, where Nikko was evaluated by Dr. Eugene Olivetto, an experienced psychiatrist employed to evaluate inmates with mental health concerns.

Jenkins informed Olivetto that he was hearing voices from Apophis, the ancient Egyptian serpent god of chaos, and explicitly stated that he was going to kill people.

Dr. Olivetto believed Jenkins was genuinely psychotic and delusional, officially recommending that he be committed to the Lincoln Regional Center, Nebraska’s state psychiatric hospital.

Despite meeting all criteria for civil commitment, no action was taken, and Jenkins was simply processed on his assault charges and returned to the state prison system.

He was placed at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution under the care of contract psychiatrist Dr. D. Natalie Baker-Heizer, who evaluated him over several months and reached the exact same conclusion regarding his serious psychiatric disorder and command hallucinations.

As his release date approached, Dr. Baker-Heizer submitted a formal report recommending civil commitment to the Lincoln Regional Center to her superior, Dr. Mark Weilage, the assistant behavioral health administrator.

Weilage buried the report, believing Jenkins was merely faking symptoms to lay the groundwork for a future lawsuit against the state, and failed to share it with his superiors or the state ombudsman.

Concurrently, mental health coordinator Denise Gaines reversed her initial belief that Jenkins was faking and wrote a letter to the parole board urging mental health treatment upon his release, bringing the total to three mental health professionals warning of his danger without any administrative result.

Recognizing his own instability, Nikko Jenkins wrote numerous letters to prison officials, prosecutors, and judges begging not to be released because he was afraid of the violent urges he could not control.

His mother, Lorie, also contacted authorities to request his commitment to the Lincoln Regional Center, expressing fear of her own son and predicting that his release would result in immediate harm.

These pleas were ignored, and on July 30, 2013, 26-year-old Nikko Jenkins was released directly from solitary confinement into Omaha without a housing plan, parole officer, or state supervision, despite having been deemed too dangerous to interact with the general prison population for the preceding two years.

Upon returning to Omaha, Jenkins reconnected with his mother Lorie, his sister Erica (who had finished her own sentence), his uncle Warren Levering (recently released from an Oklahoma prison), and his cousin Christine Bordeaux.

Lacking employment history, skills, or income, Jenkins turned to his family to acquire resources through criminal means.

Despite being a convicted felon, Lorie Jenkins walked into a gun outlet and purchased Brenneke Classic Magnum 12-gauge shotgun slugs—heavy, high-powered deer slugs designed for large game—on surveillance camera without anyone flagging the illegal sale.

Jenkins also obtained a 9mm handgun and a revolver, fully arming himself within days of his release while surrounded by compliant family members.

Meanwhile, Juan Uribe-Pena (26) and Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz (29) were living quiet, productive lives in South Omaha.

Uribe-Pena was an active member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church with no criminal history, while Cajiga-Ruiz was a father supporting his family through steady work, neither having any connection to the Jenkins family.

On the evening of August 10, 2013, Uribe-Pena and Cajiga-Ruiz were at a South Omaha bar when Erica Jenkins and Christine Bordeaux approached them, acting on Nikko’s instructions to lure the men to a secluded location for a robbery.

The women convinced the men to meet them at Spring Lake Park near 18th and F Streets, a quiet public park with a swimming pool.

The two men drove to the empty parking lot in Cajiga-Ruiz’s white Ford pickup truck to wait for the women, unaware that they were being set up.

Nikko Jenkins approached the parked truck on foot carrying the 12-gauge shotgun loaded with the deer slugs his mother had purchased.

Without warning or demanding money, Jenkins fired directly into the vehicle, hitting both men in the head and killing them instantly.

He then turned their pockets inside out to steal their cash and valuables before abandoning the truck at the scene.

At 5:01 a.m. on August 11, a patrol officer discovered the truck containing the two bodies, and detective Dave Schneider responded to process the scene.

The severe injuries and turned-out pockets clearly indicated an execution-style robbery, but the lack of witnesses, surveillance footage, or traditional motives made the initial investigation exceedingly difficult for homicide detectives.

The double murder left the South Omaha community and the victims’ families deeply traumatized while investigators searched for leads.

Eight days later, on August 19, 2013, 22-year-old Curtis Bradford was living in North Omaha, unaware that his acquaintance Nikko Jenkins was the killer police were searching for.

Bradford had met Jenkins while serving time in prison, and after their mutual release, they spent time socializing, even posting a photo together on Facebook less than 24 hours before Bradford’s death.

Erica Jenkins held a grievance against Bradford’s associates, believing they were responsible for a past shooting at her house.

On August 19, Nikko and Erica invited Bradford to join them in committing a robbery, leading him to a quiet alley near 18th and Clark Streets.

Once Bradford turned his back, Nikko shot him in the head with a revolver, followed by shotgun rounds and additional shots fired by Erica, who later complained that Nikko acted first and stole her opportunity to kill him.

At 7:00 a.m., a neighbor found Bradford’s body, leaving Omaha police with three unsolved murders across two separate detective teams who had not yet linked the South Omaha park shooting to the North Omaha alley execution.

Two days later, on August 21, 33-year-old Andrea Krueger was working her late-night shift as a bartender at the Déjà Vu Lounge in West Omaha.

She was a mother of three young children—Jaden, Ava, and Hartley—who worked nights while her husband Michael Ryan worked daytime hours to care for their family.

After closing the bar at 1:47 a.m. and grabbing fast food, she began her routine drive home in her gold 2012 Chevrolet Traverse.

At the intersection of 168th and Fort Streets, Krueger’s vehicle encountered a 2005 Ford Taurus carrying Erica Jenkins (driving), Nikko Jenkins, Christine Bordeaux, and Warren Levering, who were searching for a vehicle to carjack for an upcoming trip.

Nikko Jenkins and Warren Levering rushed Krueger’s SUV, pulled her from the driver’s seat, and Nikko shot her four times with a 9mm handgun, leaving her body in the middle of the intersection.

As they fled in both vehicles, Erica called Nikko on the phone to criticize him for leaving the body in the middle of the road rather than dumping it in a ditch.

Krueger’s body was discovered at 2:15 a.m. by a sheriff’s deputy, initiating a frantic search by her husband when she failed to arrive home.

Later that day, her stolen Chevrolet Traverse was found abandoned in an alley near 43rd and Charles Streets, where an unsuccessful attempt had been made to burn the vehicle with gasoline.

With four deaths in ten days across distinct neighborhoods, law enforcement faced a massive challenge in connecting the seemingly random sprees.

The initial breakthrough came when forensic investigators examined Krueger’s recovered vehicle and found an unspent 12-gauge deer slug identical to the rare Brenneke ammunition used in the Spring Lake Park double homicide.

Detectives Schneider and his team canvassed area firearms dealers, locating surveillance video from August 2 showing a woman purchasing that exact ammunition.

Although initially misidentified as Christine Bordeaux, the buyer was actually Lorie Jenkins; however, contacting Bordeaux based on the footage led to her full cooperation, revealing the family’s comprehensive involvement in all four murders.

On August 29, 2013, Nikko Jenkins was arrested on an unrelated charge of making terroristic threats, removing him from the streets while detectives finalized their murder case.

On September 3, Jenkins underwent an eight-hour interrogation where he confessed to all four killings, framing them as required sacrifices to the Egyptian serpent god Apophis while simultaneously providing explicit, non-public details regarding the weapons, locations, and methods used.

On September 4, Chief Todd Schmaderer announced that Jenkins was formally charged with four counts of first-degree murder, assuring the public that the killer was behind bars.

Law enforcement quickly moved to arrest the remaining family members involved in the spree.

Erica Jenkins was charged with first-degree murder for Curtis Bradford’s death and conspiracy in the other killings; Warren Levering was charged with murder and robbery for his role in Andrea Krueger’s death and the subsequent vehicle disposal; Lorie Jenkins was charged with federal ammunition offenses and evidence tampering; Christine Bordeaux was charged with robbery conspiracy; and Lorie Sayles was charged with hiding a murder weapon.

Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine stated that the true underlying motive across all the killings was greed and a desire for resources to commit further crimes, dismissing the supernatural claims as either fabricated or non-exculpatory.

While awaiting trial, Jenkins continuously wrote letters to judges, prosecutors, and media outlets, oscillating between structured legal reasoning and claims of divine commands from Apophis.

On November 3, 2013, he submitted handwritten letters offering to plead guilty while threatening extreme violence in defense of his perceived deity.

His public defender, Tom Riley, raised the issue of mental competency, questioning whether Jenkins was experiencing genuine psychotic delusions or strategically exaggerating symptoms to avoid trial.

In February 2014, Jenkins filed a handwritten $24.5 million federal lawsuit against the state of Nebraska for wrongful release, citing specific statutes to argue that prison officials failed to treat his documented schizophrenia and bipolar disorder despite his explicit warnings.

During his April 2014 trial, where he was permitted to represent himself with advisory counsel, Jenkins disrupted proceedings by speaking in tongues and laughing as victim details were read.

Judge Peter Batallion found Jenkins guilty on all four counts of first-degree murder, leaving the issue of mental competency to dominate the upcoming capital sentencing phase.

Scheduled for sentencing in August 2014, the proceedings were delayed indefinitely to resolve whether Jenkins was competent to face the death penalty.

During this extended period in custody, Jenkins engaged in extreme self-mutilation: in April 2015, he attempted to carve “666” into his forehead (which appeared backward as upside-down nines); in June 2015, he carved “Satan” into his face and sliced his tongue to appear forked; later that year, he mutilated his body below the waist, requiring 27 stitches; and in 2016, he carved “Hatshepsut” onto his chest using altered pens.

While defense attorneys cited these acts as evidence of severe psychosis, prosecutors presented evidence that Jenkins admitted to prison staff he was intentionally mutilating himself to build an insanity defense and embarrass the department.

The state legislature launched an investigation under Legislative Resolution 424 to examine the systemic failures of the Department of Correctional Services regarding Jenkins’s release.

Testimony revealed that Dr. Olivetto had been fired after publicly speaking out about his ignored commitment recommendation, while Dr. Weilage admitted he only read Dr. Baker-Heizer’s commitment recommendation after Jenkins had already been released and committed the four murders.

Senator Ernie Chambers condemned the system’s neglect, noting that proper mental health commitment would have saved four lives, prompting legislative creation of the Inspector General for Nebraska Corrections, a new mental health treatment facility, and stricter discharge policies.

As the principal cases progressed, the accomplice family members received their sentences.

Erica Jenkins was sentenced to life in prison for Bradford’s murder, later accumulating over 180 additional years for violently assaulting prison staff and fellow inmates, including her own cousin.

Lorie Jenkins received a total of 15 years in federal prison for illegal ammunition acquisition and accessory charges; Warren Levering accepted a plea deal for accessory to murder, receiving a 40-year sentence that resulted in his eventual release in 2020; and Christine Bordeaux received 20 years for robbery conspiracy.

In early 2017, state psychiatrists officially determined that Jenkins was legally competent to understand the death penalty proceedings.

During the January 2017 sentencing hearing before a three-judge panel, prosecutors detailed six aggravating factors emphasizing the brutal nature of the spree, while the defense pointed to his childhood trauma, untreated mental illness, and severe solitary confinement.

On May 30, 2017, Judge Peter Batallion read the panel’s unanimous order, sentencing Nikko Jenkins to death for each of the four murders, alongside up to 500 additional years for weapon violations.

The death sentences triggered automatic appeals under Nebraska law, initiating years of state and federal litigation.

The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the convictions and sentences in July 2019, and the United States Supreme Court declined to review the case in April 2020.

Despite the legal affirmations, Nebraska’s inability to acquire lethal injection drugs from pharmaceutical manufacturers created ongoing operational delays for all death row executions.

In May 2024, Jenkins’s defense requested funding for a mitigation specialist following an incident where Jenkins sliced his own neck to remove an imaginary tumor, a request criticized by victim families as deliberate attention-seeking.

In September 2024, his attorneys filed for a new trial alleging ineffective assistance of counsel, arguing his original team failed to present evidence of intellectual disability or pursue an insanity plea.

In March 2025, Jenkins briefly submitted a handwritten request to drop all appeals and set an execution date, only to retract the request less than a month later during an April 2025 hearing before Judge Batallion.

In September 2025, defense attorneys filed a new motion claiming Jenkins was intellectually disabled under the precedent of Atkins v. Virginia, requesting court funding for a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation.

During an October 20, 2025 hearing, prosecutors successfully argued that the request was an unsubstantiated attempt to prolong proceedings without new evidence.

In January 2026, a Douglas County judge officially denied all pending motions for relief, rejecting claims of ineffective counsel and intellectual disability, effectively exhausting Jenkins’s state appeal options and keeping his four death sentences fully intact.