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    29 years on Death Row. This is the thing that makes both sides say "why". Antis say "isn't imagining your death for 29 years punishment enough"? Pros say "about time". I say "about time". I am so with Kent on this, any appeals after the mandatory should only regard guilt or innocence.
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    That argument is subject to a paradox since if they had LWOP, they wouldn't be pondering their deaths for the 29 years they were in prison, provided the state didn't release them by that time.
    I am vehemently against Murder. That's why I support the Death Penalty.

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    Death row inmate eats last meal, talks with spiritual advisor before execution

    Jerry Correll's day has been full of lasts.

    He woke up for the last time at 6 a.m.

    He ate his last meal at 10 a.m. – a cheeseburger, French fries and a Coke.

    He spoke with his spiritual advisor one last time for nearly two hours.

    And he talked on the phone with his daughter one last time.

    Correll, 59, is scheduled to be executed tonight at 6 p.m. by lethal-injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

    The Orlando man stabbed to death his ex-wife, Susan, their 5-year-old daughter Tuesday, and Susan's mother and sister in 1985.

    The scene Correll left behind at the Conway-area home was among the bloody and gory, police and prosecutors said at the time.

    McKinley Lewis, communications director for the Florida Department of Corrections, held a press briefing this afternoon providing details about Correll's final hours before his execution.

    Controversial drug

    The execution was the first in the nation since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June which allowed the use of midazolam, a sedative that is part of the three-drug protocol used in Florida executions.

    A group of Oklahoma death-row inmates said the drug was ineffective in adequately making inmates unconscious, and point to botched executions where inmates have shown signs they are suffering from pain by gasping and clenching their fists.

    In Correll's appeals, his lawyers said because of his previous drug and alcohol-use, the drug would not work on him. But the Florida Supreme Court justices unanimously rejected the argument.

    In earlier appeals, Correll's attorneys argued he was abused by his alcoholic father and became a drug addict. They also indicated the deaths were a drug hit, but never offered any details.

    Correll becomes the second inmate executed in Florida this year, and the 91st since 1979, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    There's only two other executions in the nation scheduled this year, in Texas and Missouri, and only four next year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    States such as Ohio have stayed all executions because it is having trouble obtaining the necessary drugs.

    A U.S. Supreme Court regarding whether all death penalties should have a jury unanimous in sentencing death also is pending.

    Robert Dunham, executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, said using midazolam is risky.

    "Most of states that have the death penalty are staying away from midazolam," Dunham said. "They're staying away from it because what everybody else has seen, and that is there is a real risk that the prisoner will feel intense pain."

    'Heinous, atrocious and cruel'

    Susan Correll, 25, suffered stab wounds throughout her body, including some that weren't fatal, indicating Correll may have tortured her before killing her, and then had sex with her body.

    Her mother, 48-year-old Mary Lou Hines, had defensive wounds, apparently from protecting Tuesday, before both were killed. Tuesday was wearing her pajamas and clutching a doll.

    Susan's sister Marybeth Jones was out on a date during the initial killings. She entered through a side door and didn't see the carnage on the other side of the house. She was getting a glass of water in the kitchen when Correll attacked, dragging her to her bedroom where he stabbed her to death.

    Their bodies were found on July 1, 1985, by a neighbor and Susan's co-worker.

    Correll showed up to the scene, with cuts to his hand and acted "inappropriately" for a man who just found out his daughter and ex-wife were killed, Orange County Sheriff's deputies said at the time. He was arrested the next day.

    At the trial, Correll's defense attorneys argued that he was with a woman at Lake Toho getting high at the time of the slayings, but the woman was never found.

    A jury of 10 women and 2 men, selected in Sarasota because all the publicity locally, convicted Correll of four counts of first-degree murder after a week-long trial. They sentenced him to die in a 10-2 vote.

    Judge R. James Stroker said in sentencing Correll to death called Tuesday's death "especially heinous, atrocious and cruel." A doctor at the trial said she lived for about 5 minutes before losing consciousness.

    "It is difficult to imagine the degree of emotional anguish suffered by that dying child," Stroker wrote. "She had apparently witnessed the brutal murder of her mother and experience the horror of her own father repeatedly driving a sharp knife in her chest."
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    "there is a real risk that the prisoner will feel intense pain." "Susan Correll, 25, suffered stab wounds throughout her body, including some that weren't fatal, indicating Correll may have tortured her before killing her, and then had sex with her body." Prisoner may feel pain - GOOD PLAN, CAN I HELP?
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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - 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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    Florida executes Jerry Correll

    Jerry Correll, 59, was executed tonight by lethal-injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

    Jerry Correll was scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m., but it appears the state waited on a last appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The court denied Correll's stay of execution around 6:40 p.m. without comment. He was executed after 7 p.m.

    Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, saying Correll's execution should be delayed while the court decides whether Florida's capital punishment system is constitutional.

    The system says the jury's vote on whether to impose a death sentence is only advisory with the judge making the final decision.

    Breyer also said keeping a prisoner on death row for 30 years constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

    The Orlando man was sentenced to die for stabbing to death his ex-wife, Susan, their 5-year-old daughter Tuesday, and Susan's mother and sister in 1985.

    McKinley Lewis, communications director for the Florida Department of Corrections, held a press briefing in the afternoon providing details about Correll's final hours before his execution.

    He woke up for the last time at 6 a.m. He ate his last meal at 10 a.m. – a cheeseburger, French fries and a Coke. He spoke with his spiritual advisor one last time for nearly two hours. And he talked on the phone with his daughter one last time.

    The execution was a long-time coming for family members.

    "Jerry Correll mercilessly and brutally killed four family members more than 30 years ago," State Attorney Jeff Ashton said in a statement. "The Hines family and our community may finally get the justice a jury and judge believed is deserved."

    The scene Correll left behind at the Conway-area home was among the bloody and gory, police and prosecutors said at the time.

    Controversial drug

    The execution was the first in the nation since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June which allowed the use of midazolam, a sedative that is part of the three-drug protocol used in Florida executions.

    A group of Oklahoma death-row inmates said the drug was ineffective in adequately making inmates unconscious, and point to botched executions where inmates have shown signs they are suffering from pain by gasping and clenching their fists.

    In Correll's appeals, his lawyers said because of his previous drug and alcohol-use, the drug would not work on him. But the Florida Supreme Court justices unanimously rejected the argument.

    In earlier appeals, Correll's attorneys argued he was abused by his alcoholic father and became a drug addict. They also indicated the deaths were a drug hit, but never offered any details.

    Correll becomes the second inmate executed in Florida this year, and the 91st since 1979, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    There's only two other executions in the nation scheduled this year, in Texas and Missouri, and only four next year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    States such as Ohio have stayed all executions because it is having trouble obtaining the necessary drugs.

    A U.S. Supreme Court regarding whether all death penalties should have a jury unanimous in sentencing death also is pending.

    Robert Dunham, executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, said using midazolam is risky.

    "Most of states that have the death penalty are staying away from midazolam," Dunham said. "They're staying away from it because what everybody else has seen, and that is there is a real risk that the prisoner will feel intense pain."

    'Heinous, atrocious and cruel'


    Susan Correll, 25, suffered stab wounds throughout her body, including some that weren't fatal.

    Her mother, 48-year-old Mary Lou Hines, had defensive wounds, apparently from protecting 5-year-old Tuesday, before both were killed. Tuesday was wearing her pajamas and clutching a doll.

    Susan's sister Marybeth Jones was out on a date during the initial killings. She entered through a side door and didn't see the carnage on the other side of the house. She was getting a glass of water in the kitchen when Correll attacked, dragging her to her bedroom where he stabbed her to death.

    Their bodies were found on July 1, 1985, by a neighbor and Susan's co-worker.

    Correll showed up to the scene, with cuts to his hand and acted "inappropriately" for a man who just found out his daughter and ex-wife were killed, Orange County Sheriff's deputies said at the time. He was arrested the next day.

    At the trial, Correll's defense attorneys argued that he was with a woman at Lake Toho getting high at the time of the slayings, but the woman was never found.

    A jury of 10 women and 2 men, selected in Sarasota because all the publicity locally, convicted Correll of four counts of first-degree murder after a week-long trial. They sentenced him to die in a 10-2 vote.

    Judge R. James Stroker in sentencing Correll to death called Tuesday's death "especially heinous, atrocious and cruel."

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    Statement from the family of Correll's victims: "The consequences of those actions should be no less than death itself. ..
    "...It has taken a long time for his punishment to be fulfilled, but we have chosen to use that time to heal and move forward."

    Correll's last words: "No, thank you, sir," after the execution team warden asked if he wanted to make a statement.

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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - 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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    October 29, 2015

    Florida executes Jerry Correll for 4 killings in 1985

    By Michael Auslen
    The Miami Herald

    STARKE — At 7:36 p.m. Thursday, decades after he brutally stabbed four people to death — including his 5-year-old daughter — Jerry Correll’s body lay lifeless in the death chamber at Florida State Prison.

    Just 10 minutes earlier, Correll — dressed in all white under a white sheet — turned down a final statement. And an executioner injected him with three chemicals. The first sedated him, the next paralyzed him and the third stopped his heart.

    With that came an end to one of the most protracted cases on Florida’s crowded death row. Thirty years after he stabbed and killed his daughter, his ex-wife, Susan, and her mother and sister in Orlando, Correll himself was dead at 59.

    The execution occurred after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment Correll’s request for a stay at 6:40 p.m., 40 minutes after the execution was scheduled.

    Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, saying Correll’s execution should be delayed while the court decides whether Florida’s capital punishment system is constitutional. At issue: In Florida, it takes only a majority of the jury — not a unanimous one as in other states —to recommend the death penalty. Even then, the judge has a final say.

    Breyer also said keeping a prisoner on death row for 30 years constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

    Correll is the first person to be executed since January in the small, white death chamber. His death was put off in February by the Florida Supreme Court while federal justices considered a case that could rule the state’s lethal injections unconstitutional.

    That case surrounded midazolam, a highly controversial drug used in lethal injections in just a few states, including Florida. Its purpose is to sedate the inmate, although in some cases it has not worked properly, causing inmates to clench their fists in a sign of pain during an execution.

    Cries could be heard from the witnesses as Correll's death was underway. It took about 10 minutes for the midazolam to kill him.

    Correll’s execution is the 22nd to take place in the death chamber at Florida State Prison since Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011, more than any other governor since the death penalty was reinstated in Florida in 1976. Jeb Bush ordered 21 in his eight years in office and Charlie Crist ordered just five.

    “It’s his solemn duty to uphold the law and his foremost concern is always for the victims and their families,” said Jackie Schutz, Scott’s spokeswoman.

    Family members of the victims — his daughter named Tuesday, his ex-wife Susan Correll, her mother Mary Lou Hines, and her sister Marybeth Jones — were present, as were Correll’s lawyers and a member of clergy.

    “The consequences of [Correll’s] actions should be no less than death itself,” the family of the victims said in a written statement after the execution. “It has taken a long time for his punishment to be fulfilled, but we have chosen to use that time to heal and move forward.”

    The family of death row inmates aren’t allowed to witness executions. Correll spoke with his daughter on the phone Thursday morning, however, and she and other family members visited him last week, Department of Corrections spokesman McKinley Lewis said.

    On Thursday, Correll had a two-hour meeting with Deacon Jason Roy, a Catholic chaplain who serves death row inmates. Around 10 a.m., he ate his last meal: a cheeseburger, french fries and a Coke.

    “His general demeanor has been calm and in good spirits today,” Lewis said.

    Inside the chamber on Thursday evening, the team responsible for carrying out Scott’s death warrant were connected to the governor and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi via phone. They were able to ensure no last-minute decisions required the execution to be put off, Schutz said.

    The Florida Supreme Court already delayed Correll’s execution in February, pending a federal death penalty case, but they declined to do so again. Correll’s lawyers made an unsuccessful bid to the U.S. Supreme Court to demand the state hold off while the Court reviews how Florida sentences people to death, in a case called Hurst v. Florida.

    Bondi opposed any delay, filing documents with the court arguing that the state is on solid legal ground. On Tuesday, she said that “the courts have ruled in our favor in the past on this very issue” and called Correll’s crime a “horrible, horrible murder.”

    “We’re not going to let anybody be executed that we feel isn’t warranted by our laws,” Bondi said.

    With the U.S. Supreme Court planning to rule on Florida’s death penalty in the Hurst case — Florida is the only state where a judge issues a death sentence based on the recommendation of a jury that need not be unanimous — critics said now was not the time to move ahead with an execution. Because Correll’s death sentence could get sent back to a jury if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the state, DeLiberato said she was surprised the execution wasn’t delayed by a lower court.

    “It certainly was a surprise to us,” she said. “We certainly thought they would recognize the significance of the Hurst case and how it potentially affects Florida’s death penalty.”

    http://www.miamiherald.com/news/stat...e41871279.html

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    I understand victims' families' claims...It's a duty to give punishment for such a crime... 30 years in prison, on death row especially, seemed to be let's say not enough, but quite acceptable to be willing to convert a death sentence to a life sentence, in my opinion.

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    There have been a few cases where I would agree, but not this one.

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