Posted on 08/19/2025 11:05:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A grieving husband witnessed the Tuesday execution of the man who abducted and killed his wife from a Florida insurance office over four decades ago — stating he “made a promise” to see her tragic case through.
Randy White, 70, lost his wife, Janet Renee White, after she was abducted, raped, and stabbed to death by Kayle Bates in 1982 — just minutes after he last said goodbye to her, USA Today reported. Bates, 67, died by lethal injection at 6:17 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. It was the state’s 10th death sentence carried out in 2025.
The execution gave the widower long-awaited relief that he had finally reached the end of a nearly 43-year battle for justice in his wife’s killing.
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‘What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.’
43 years is absolutely disgusting. No way it should take that long.
BTW...after conviction and sentencing, the ONLY questions on appeal should be whether or not the convicted actually committed the crime, and is the punishment appropriate.
A surprisingly long time on death row. Especially for a red state like Florida.
Gotta keep that legal system up and running.
My thoughts exactly.
An absolutely horrific denial of justice. Our system is broken! We are run by traitors.
Glad that it was done, but justice so long delayed is justice almost completely denied. He should’ve been executed when Ronald Reagan was still in office. At the very latest, when GHWB was in office. There is simply no good reason for these decades long delays.
There are 400 people on Florida’s death row. At one execution a month, it will take 34 years, if no one else were sentenced to death in the meantime.
IOW, twice a day, the backlog would be cleared up in a little over six months.
It’s about time.👍
Revenge has a valuable deterent effect. In the "dumbell murder case" (the monicker refers to the intellect of the perpetrators, not the lethal instrument) which was the basis for the film and novel Double Indemnity the period between commission of the crime and execution was 10 months. In the infamous Saco and Vanzetti case (they were as guilty as hell) the gap of seven years between the commission of the crime and execution was cited by the defense as cruel and unusual punishment, since no one should linger on death row for seven years. I agree, no one should linger on death row for seven years.
The good thing about the death sentence is that it really means life in prison with no parole
“The good thing about the death sentence is that it really means life in prison with no parole“……….
Until the left takes over the judicial seats and then you get you get time served with parole.
43 years...should have been dead within an hour of conviction.
Here’s the story of how the husband and wife met: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/florida-couple-married-10-weeks-100440070.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM0Mcb5f7dwNLqbuWaNKzf24okcnm1Dzf7vgPNoACNalojjfiR4eFgAUt9yWR-4p-wPIBgcnQVzPhIpOJ2ZT6_bm_8hi9hKtC4ZtYjDry7bQhK1uznIZJdac7hO494rVXNlCT9XuYsAnmOezlHtCwc_IaF3-1-6M63yuEYLFj_Og
Justice delayed is justice denied
What the hell ? Misguided to say the least.
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