Posted on 04/13/2023 7:14:11 AM PDT by V_TWIN
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida executed a man known as the “ninja killer” on Wednesday for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey.
Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection, the governor’s office said. He was convicted of killing Robert Sturmfels, 56, and Georgette Sturmfels, 55, on Dec. 20, 1989, in their Flagler County winter home on Florida’s northeastern coast.
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Aw, that’s a shame.
One less “ninja wannabe” bouncing around out there today.
That’s over 30 years and millions of dollars ago.
That’s about the average in Florida
>>That’s over 30 years and millions of dollars ago.
And that’s WITH a full confession by the killer.
So change the laws. Would you rather have no executions? The scumbag was kept off the street so he could not re-offend vs being turned loose , as is happening all the time and a much bigger problem.
Exactly! He should have been put to death years ago and saved the state hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, I know about convicting the innocent, but after, say, five years, carry out the sentence.
Hope they served him a Bud Lite with his last meal.
Indeed, that's NOT justice for anyone. Not the victims' family, not the state, not the public. It makes a joke of the law.
The death penalty is ineffective when it routinely takes 30 years or more to carry out an execution. Appeals after a conviction in a capital cases should be expedited at all levels of appeal (state and federal, all the way to the Supreme Court).
If someone was wrongly convicted then they should not spend 30 years on death row. If someone was rightly convicted then they should be executed within a couple of years of their conviction.
We also need to bring back public executions (preferably hangings in the courthouse square), but that is a rant for another day.
“Property that he stole from the Sturmfels’ home — a clock, two lamps and a videocassette recorder — was found at his residence and were intended to be Christmas gifts for his girlfriend, according to investigators. He was also convicted of armed robbery, burglary...”
““The guilt was always there,” Gaskin said. “The devil had more of a hold than God did. I knew that I was wrong. I wasn’t insane.”
https://youtu.be/fNAGlggmIHo?t=44
Desantis has been trying to do more to clean out death row of the likes of 30 year veteran killers like Frank Walls. Last I heard Walls was suing the state for making him fat. This POS should have been fertilizer long ago.
SPJNK.
SPJNK.
Who says it’s more civilized to let murderers cool their heels in prison while their victims are dead? Democrats, I guess.
Eccl 8:11-12
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.
NAS
With California looking to change their murder laws and commute the sentences of current prisoners who are serving life without parole to 20 years, there appears to be no such thing as life without parole only executions are permanent
Thirty years?
Here in California there are men on Death Row who were sentenced 40 years ago, and they are no closer to their execution date than when they entered San Quentin. A travesty. They will probably die of old age before the needle can get them.
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