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    Enoch Donnell Hall - Florida Death Row


    Donna Fitzgerald


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    Facts of the Crime:

    Enoch Hall murdered corrections officer Donna Fitzgerald at Tomoka State Prison in June 2008. A jury recommended Hall get the death penalty and a judge agreed. Hall's death sentence was handed down and he just stood there with his head hanging slightly. Earlier in the hearing, when his attorney asked him if he wanted to say anything to save himself, he just shook his head.

    On the other side of the courtroom, though, where about two dozen corrections officers were sitting along with Fitzgerald's siblings, there were tears all around. Officers’ jaws were trembling as Fitzgerald's killer was sentenced to death. The judge said the sentence was based in large part on the killing being cruel, cold and calculating. Hall waited in a work shed that day in June 2008. Fitzgerald had to come find him and, when she did, he pulled out a sheet metal shank and stabbed her in the heart.

    Fitzgerald's family did not hold back in telling the judge what they thought Hall's sentence should be. “Immediate death. Immediate. If it could be at noon time today, I’d be thrilled. I’d be ecstatic,” said Donald Shaure, the victim’s brother. Hall's attorneys tried to save him by arguing he had taken some pills that day to get high and they affected him mentally. They also argued he had psychological problems and a low IQ. The judge decided there wasn't strong enough evidence to support either idea and gave them no weight in deciding on the death penalty.

    Hall was sentenced to death in Volusia County on January 15, 2010.

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    January 14, 2010

    Corrections Officer’s Killer Sentenced To Death

    DELAND -- An inmate who killed a state prison corrections officer in 2008 has been sentenced to death.

    Enoch Hall was convicted in October 2009 of stabbing Officer Donna Fitzgerald to death at the Tomoka Correctional Institution, in Daytona Beach. The jury that found Hall guilty recommended the death penalty

    Circuit Judge J. David Walsh confirmed the jury’s recommendation Friday.

    Hall was already serving two life sentences for sexual battery and kidnapping when he killed Fitzgerald.

    http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2...h.html?cid=rss

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    Oral arguments were held on the 7th of February.

    http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/p...es/index.shtml

    You can find the briefs here: http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/p...182/index.html

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    ENOCH D. HALL v THE STATE OF FLORIDA

    In today's opinions, the Florida Supreme Court AFFIRMED Hall's conviction and sentence of death.
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    Supreme Court upholds death penalty for prison guard's killer

    The Florida Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for a repeat rapist serving two consecutive life sentences when he killed a corrections officer with a prison-made knife with a machined edge.

    Enoch Hall, 40, was sentenced to die Jan 15, 2010, after a jury convicted him of stabbing and strangling Donna Fitzgerald at Tomoka Correctional Institution on June 25, 2008.

    Fitzgerald was killed while working at the state prison, supervising a work crew that included Hall, a welder.

    She was found in a paint room at the prison, stabbed, strangled, and with blunt force trauma to the head that prosecutor said came from Hall’s punches.

    Hall appealed his conviction, questioning whether the death sentence was proportionate, saying the local court made a mistake by allowing his three confessions into evidence; arguing that the medical examiner’s opinion about the sequence in which Fitzgerald received 22 stab wounds, a fractured rib, trauma to her head, collapsed lungs and pierced heart led to a first-degree rather than a second-degree murder conviction.

    The state Supreme Court disagreed and upheld Circuit Judge J. David Walsh’s sentence of death. A jury had unanimously recommended the death sentence back in October 2009.

    Walsh explained the sentence at the time, saying he strongly considered Hall’s violent past as a convicted kidnapper and rapist of two women. Walsh noted that Hall left one of the victims in Pensacola with a permanent head injury.

    The judge also considered Fitzgerald’s injuries and found that the killing was “unnecessarily tortuous.”

    Walsh did not give as much weight to mitigating factors presented by Hall’s defense lawyers, including Hall’s rape in a county jail when he was a teenager near Milton.

    http://www.news-journalonline.com/ne...ds-killer.html
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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Hall's petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Docketed: June 26, 2013
    Linked with 12A1021
    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Florida
    Case Nos.: (SC10-182)
    Decision Date: August 30, 2012
    Rehearing Denied: February 1, 2013
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    Correctional officer killer seeks to have conviction overturned

    DAYTONA BEACH — A man sentenced to die for the slaying of a Tomoka Correctional Institution officer asked a judge to overturn his conviction due to defense attorneys failing to call a psychologist.

    The News-Journal Online reports that Enoch Hall, 46, is sentenced to die for his part in the death of Donna Fitzgerald on June 25, 2008.

    Hall was serving two consecutive life sentences when he killed Fitzgerald, stabbing her 22 times with a makeshift knife while she was supervising him on a work crew. Fitzgerald’s body was found over a cart with her pants pulled down, which prosecutors say showed intent to rape.

    A jury unanimously recommended capital punishment after finding him guilty of first-degree murder in 2010.

    Hall’s defense attorney during that trial was Assistant Public Defender Matt Phillips. Phillips said he chose to not call the psychologist during the trial’s penalty phase because he had more “bad things to say than good things.” He said that the psychologist would have testified that Hall suffered from “mild cognitive deficits.”

    Phillips went on to say that calling a psychologist would have opened the door for prosecutors to call their own expert witness, psychiatrist Jeffrey Danziger, who could have said that Hall had considered raping Fitzgerald and had considered using her uniform as part of an escape attempt.

    http://www.correctionsone.com/co-don...on-overturned/

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    ENOCH D. HALL v STATE OF FLORIDA AND ENOCH D. HALL v JULIE L JONES, etc..

    In today's Florida Supreme Court opinions, the court AFFIRMED the post-conviction court's DENIAL on all claims, and DENIED Hall's petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
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    Court: Unanimous death penalty sentence of Volusia inmate did not violate Constitution

    The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the unanimous death penalty given to a man who murdered a prison guard in Volusia County in 2008 is still constitutional.

    Enoch Hall’s death sentence was upheld, despite multiple recent court rulings that dealt blows to Florida’s death penalty process, which courts said gave too much power to judges and not enough to juries.

    The legal disagreements over Florida’s death penalty stemmed from the second phase of capital trials, after the defendant is found guilty, in which jurors must decide what the appropriate sentence is. The penalty phase exists only in capital cases; in other cases, judges are the ones who sentence defendants.

    Until early 2016, Florida jurors did not have to be unanimous for defendants to get the death penalty. If at least seven of the 12 jurors found that someone should be put to death, the judge could sentence the person to execution.

    But last January, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the way Florida sentenced people to death was not constitutional. The ruling relied on a 2002 Supreme Court case called Ring v. Arizona, in which the court said the power to give someone the death penalty should rest with juries, not judges.

    The court did not rule on whether the executions themselves were constitutional, only the legal process that brought defendants to death row.

    In the year since, the state legislators passed a new law that said just 10 of 12 jurors had to vote for the death penalty. That sentencing scheme was struck down, too. Florida technically does not have a valid death penalty statute on the books at the moment, which has lead to some legal delays.

    In December, the state Supreme Court ruled that any inmate who got a death penalty verdict since the Ring decision in 2002 can ask for a new sentencing hearing, and perhaps be sentenced to life in prison instead of death if jurors do not come to a unanimous decision.

    But Hall is one of few death row inmates whose case was decided unanimously: All 12 jurors in his trial said he should get the death penalty. Because of that, he is not eligible for a new sentence, the court ruled.

    In the written decision, justices called Hall's case “egregious.”

    He was serving two life sentences in the Tomoka Correctional Institution in Volusia County for kidnapping and sexual battery of a 66-year-old woman near Pensacola.

    In June of 2008, Hall was looking for pills in an office at the prison work area when 50-year-old Corrections Officer Donna Fitzgerald walked in looking for him, records show. She was unarmed.

    Hall attacked Fitzgerald, stabbing her 22 times with a metal shank he said he found in the work area, records show. Some of the blows landed on her hands and arms. One punctured her lungs, and one pierced her heart.

    Hall then carried Fitzgerald back into the office, records show. A sergeant realized she had not heard from her in a while and sent two officers to go look for her.

    They found Hall, who tried to run away from them.

    “I freaked out. I snapped. I killed her,” Hall told them, according to records.

    Two other offices found Fitzgerald lying face-down on a cart in a nearby room. The top half of her body was wrapped in a gray wool blanket, and her pants and underwear were pulled down to her knees, records show.

    None of the 383 people on death row in Florida have execution dates set. The last person put to death was Oscar Ray Bolin, Jr., convicted in the 1986 murders of three Tampa-area women and given a lethal injection in January of 2016.

    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...209-story.html
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    Why isn't Judge Lawson voting in these decisions? He's been on the court since January, yet he doesn't participate.

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