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    Thomas Henry Fletcher - Florida Death Row


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    State to seek death penalty in Blackwater prison murder

    By Auriette Lindsey
    WEAR News

    PENSACOLA, Fla. — State Attorney Bill Eddins plans to seek the death penalty in a murder at Blackwater Correctional Institution.

    The grand jury in Santa Rosa County indicted Thomas H. Fletcher for first degree murder in the death of Kenneth Jeff Davis.

    Davis was 33 years old when he was found unresponsive in his cell on September 22, 2018.

    According to court documents, Fletcher was sentenced to life in prison in 1995 for the first degree murder of his alleged drug dealer during a robbery.

    Davis was sentenced to 25 years in prison for trying to kill his ex-wife and her boyfriend with an explosive device in Walton County in 2015.

    According to the state attorney's office, Fletcher’s next scheduled court date is March 28 in Santa Rosa County.

    The Florida Dept. of Corrections website shows Fletcher is currently incarcerated at the Florida State Prison in Raiford.

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    Blackwater inmate facing death penalty after pleading to murder of fellow inmate

    Pensacola News Journal

    A Blackwater Correctional Institution inmate could face the death penalty after murdering a fellow prisoner.

    On Thursday, Thomas H. Fletcher, 51, pleaded no contest to premeditated first-degree murder in the death of Kenneth Jeff Davis. Davis, 33, was found unresponsive in the prison Sept. 22, 2018.

    The state announced it would seek the death penalty, but Fletcher declined the right to a jury trial. After entering his plea Thursday, Fletcher was adjudicated guilty by Circuit Judge Scott Duncan.

    During the hearing, Fletcher also waived his right to a penalty phase jury and waived his right to present mitigation, essentially meaning he will leave himself at the judge's mercy.

    Duncan will preside over a penalty phase hearing where he will decide if Fletcher will be issued a life sentence or a death sentence.

    The judge ordered a comprehensive pre-sentence investigation to be completed by state probation, which will review factors such as Fletcher's criminal history, mental health and family background.

    At the time of the murder, Fletcher was serving a life sentence for 1994 Broward County convictions for murder, robbery and cocaine trafficking.

    The next scheduled court date is Oct. 24, when the date for the penalty phase will be determined.

    https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/...er/2163647001/
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    Blackwater inmate who 'volunteered' for death penalty sentenced to death for 2018 murder

    By Annie Blanks
    Pensacola News Journal

    A man who killed his prison cellmate at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility in 2018 has been sentenced to death by a Santa Rosa County judge.

    State Attorney Bill Eddins announced in a press release Wednesday that Circuit Judge Scott Duncan ordered Thomas Fletcher, 53, be sentenced to the death penalty for the Sept. 22, 2018, murder of his cellmate.

    According to court documents, Fletcher killed 33-year-old Kenneth Jeff Davis by choking him from behind inside their cell.

    Fletcher confessed to the crime and admitted that he murdered Davis in order to be sentenced to death.

    According to Duncan's sentencing order, in court proceedings Fletcher waived his right to a jury trial, never challenged the death penalty and refused to offer mitigation factors that could have reduced his sentence. The unusual moves were “a position that he has consistently maintained throughout these proceedings,” the judge noted.

    At the time of the murder, Fletcher was serving a life sentence for 1994 Broward County convictions for murder, robbery and cocaine trafficking.

    Eddins told the News Journal on Wednesday that there were several aggravating factors that led to his office seeking the death penalty and the judge ultimately imposing it.

    “He had already intentionally robbed and killed one person and was sentenced to life in prison, and there’s no other penalty that can be imposed other than death if you kill another person while you’re already serving life,” Eddins said. “We felt that it was appropriate under the circumstances to seek death."

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    Conviction and death sentence affirmed on direct appeal.

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    Florida Supreme Court affirms death penalty sentence of Santa Rosa inmate who murdered cellmate

    The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the decision to send a Blackwater Corrections prisoner to death row after he confessed to strangling his cellmate to death in 2018.

    Thomas H. Fletcher, a Blackwater Corrections inmate serving life in prison for murdering a man in 1994, received the death penalty in 2019 after he strangled his fellow inmate Kenneth Davis, according to a press release from the State Attorney's Office on Tuesday.

    "On July 7, 2022, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion affirming the conviction and death sentence of Thomas H. Fletcher," the press release said. "Fletcher, who confessed to killing Davis to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement special agent and in letters he wrote to the trial court, was indicted for First-Degree Premeditated Murder in March 2019."

    In a sentencing order, Circuit Court Judge Scott Duncan noted that Fletcher had been looking for an inmate to kill when he encountered Davis.

    In the penalty phase of his case, when it was being decided whether or not Fletcher would face the death penalty, he requested that his attorney not present evidence arguing against the death penalty. However, "in compliance with the law, the court did appoint special counsel to present mitigation on Fletcher's behalf," the news release said.

    At the final hearing, the state presented the testimony of several witnesses and introduced several exhibits in support of the death penalty, among them that the murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel.

    (source: Pensacola News Journal)
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    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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