Posted on 07/18/2007 11:29:22 AM PDT by Happy Valley Dude
Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday signed his first death warrant since taking office in January, ending a temporary halt on lethal injections that was imposed because of a botched execution last year.
Mark Dean Schwab, 38, is scheduled to be executed Nov. 15, Crist said. Schwab was sentenced to death in 1992 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez of Cocoa. He targeted the boy after seeing his picture in a newspaper.
In December, then-Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all Florida executions after a medical examiner said that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when convicted killer Angel Diaz was put to death. Since then the state has adopted the recommendations of a panel to make the process work better.
In signing the warrant Wednesday, Crist said he is confident lethal injections can proceed in line with constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment.
Schwab's lawyer recently argued his client's life should be spared so psychologists can study him to better understand pedophiles and prevent them from raping and killing children.
Schwab saw the boy's picture in a newspaper after being released from prison in March 1991 for serving three years on sexual assault charges. Schwab called the family on the phone, claiming he was writing an article on the boy.
Schwab became friendly with the family, even promising to help the boy get a contract to represent a surfing company. The boy's body was found three days after the murder.
Schwab was convicted of first-degree murder, sexual battery upon a child and kidnapping of a child under 13.
Screw the injection, get a rope.
“Schwab’s lawyer recently argued his client’s life should be spared so psychologists can study him to better understand pedophiles and prevent them from raping and killing children.”
A lethal injection will prevent them from raping and killing any more children, I hear it has a zero recidivism rate. Maybe the lawyer can ask the psychologists what the cure rate for sociopaths is.
I'm down with that as long as vivisection is involved.
Screw the Rope get the guillotine.
Screw the injection, crank up the chair, lets have some sparks and smoke.
The first positive thing I have seen Crist do, hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.
16 years already and counting . . .
“Schwab’s lawyer recently argued his client’s life should be spared so psychologists can study him to better understand pedophiles and prevent them from raping and killing children”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
We dont have to hold up justice and spend millions to study pedophiles or understand them...I’ll tell you for free...
go ahead and meter punishment...the reason pedophiles rape and murder children is because they are evil and they are merciless and enjoy hurting children....and no amount of sob story hand-holding is going to change them...
So let’s study ways to help the children (the REAL victims worthy of consideration) in order to prevent more children from being raped and murdered...remove the pedophiles from around children...
Now you can pay me...
Put Couey alive at the bottom of a hole, toss this one’s corpse onto him, then shovel the dirt onto both of them.
I can give you the results of any study:
These are people too dangerous to release back into society.
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