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Federal Appeals Court Halts Execution Of Florida Killer
June 25, 2013
A temporary stay halted Monday’s planned execution of Marshall Lee Gore, who had been found competent enough a month ago by a state panel to be put to death. The delay was ordered by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals about an hour before the scheduled execution.
Gore was scheduled to die by lethal injection Monday at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke. The court is expected to hold a hearing later this week on the latest request from Gore’s attorney as the warrant period for Gore’s execution expires at noon July 1.
Gore, 49, was convicted in the 1988 murders of two women in Miami-Dade and Columbia counties. The execution was scheduled for the murder of Robyn Novick, whose nude body was found in rural Miami-Dade County after being last seen leaving the parking lot of a tavern, according to a summary in a 2009 Florida Supreme Court ruling.
Gov. Rick Scott initially signed the death warrant on May 13, but at the request of Gore’s attorney put a temporary stay in effect on May 22 so a panel of psychiatrists could consider whether Gore was sane enough to be executed. The panel was asked to determine whether Gore understood the nature and effect of the death penalty and why it was to be imposed upon him. Scott’s stay was lifted May 31 following the psychiatric review.
By The News Service of Florida
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5 Responses to “Federal Appeals Court Halts Execution Of Florida Killer”
So here we are…your tax dollars at work…supporting a murderer because he doesn’t realize what he did was wrong? Please…a six year old knows this is wrong!
Give us all a break, this scumbag kills 2 women, was convicted, lived off the taxpayers dime for twenty five years and now he must understand the nature and effect of the death penalty…nothing to understand, its time to die…the penalty for his convicted actions…those that get convicted and sentenced to the death penalty should get one year and then off you go to meet your maker…quit wasting time and money…
good point, JT. But, as zero hour approaches, the motions start flying to try to stall and put off the execution. This way, if the clock runs out, a new warrant has to be issued and signed by the governor. If we could stop the clock so that the existing warrant is still valid when the motion is adjudicated, then maybe this kind of foolishness stops because there will be no incentive to play these games.
when you get right down to it, who would argue that a serial killer is sane anyway (I say serial, because he killed two, and likely many more unsolved)? But, does he possess the mental ability to know right from wrong? Obviously he did, because he was convicted. The argument that he must now be sane enough to understand why he’s being executed is dubious to me. His understanding would be very temporary. Seems to me that it is more important for everyone else to understand why he was executed.
I guess 25 years wasn’t enough time to figure that out.
This looks like nothing more than “killing the clock” until the warrant expires. I suggest a change to toll the expiration of a warrant while such an appeal is adjudicated.