• http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/67759/67759ini.pdf
About Billy Ferry.
Oh, my goodness, I was breathless reading this. I remember the incident as I was in Tampa and knew the store. There’s no mention of the people who were badly burned, only the ones killed. I only recall the news account and I recall 30 total burned or killed. I think at the time they didn’t know who would die, as they didn’t die right there on the scene but over the following days. (This is from memory.)
Do you have any idea what happened to that monster? BTW, I don’t believe in the insanity defense. The founders believed in demonic possession and that’s why they put the insanity defense in the law as everybody knows good men only do bad things if they Devil makes them. Well, I’m okay killing the Devil to protect society.
From what I read, they vacated his death sentence and have kept him in prison. He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and his life was “spared”. He will never get out, however. He’s serving 5 life sentences on top of his other felonies. Frightening guy.