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    Beauford White - Florida Execution - August 28, 1987

    Summary of Offense: Convicted for his role in the 1977 shooting of eight people, six fatally, in the robbery of a small-time drug dealer's home in the Miami suburb of Carol City. Mr. White stood guard.

    Victims: Livingston Stocker, Henry Clayton, Randolph Holmes, Charles Stinso, Gilbert Williams and Michael Miller.

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    Manner of execution: Electric Chair

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    Final Statement: When Mr. White was asked if he had any last words, he shook his head and said, faintly, ''No, sir.''

    NOTE: Marvin Francois and John Ferguson were also sentenced to death in this case.

    Francois was executed on May 29, 1985. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...da-May-29-1985

    Ferguson was executed on August 5, 2013. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...August-05-2013

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    August 29, 1987

    One Day, Three Executions: Alabama, Florida and Utah

    Three men were executed yesterday in three different states, one for killing three people and the other two for taking part in robberies that resulted in deaths. It was the first time since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty under strict procedural guidelines in 1976 that three people were put to death in the United States on the same day.

    A fourth execution scheduled for yesterday was stayed by an appeals court.

    One of those executed was Pierre Dale Selby, 34 years old, who died by lethal injection in Utah for the torture-murders of three people in a robbery at a stereo store.

    Wayne Eugene Ritter, 33, died in Alabama's electric chair after being convicted of murder for taking part in a robbery in 1977 at a Mobile pawn shop in which an accomplice killed the owner.

    Beauford White, 41, convicted of murder for standing guard while six people were shot to death in a robbery in a suburban Miami home, was electrocuted in Florida.

    Another convicted killer who had been scheduled to be put to death in Florida, Gerald Eugene Stano, received an indefinite stay from a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, in order for the court to review the issues in the case. Mr. Stano, 35, has said he was responsibile for killing 41 women. #22 Executed in 1987 The three executions yesterday brought the total for the year to 22, one more than the total for 1984, which had been the most since the landmark Supreme Court decision in 1976 restoring capital punishment.

    At Point of the Mountain, Utah, about 150 opponents of the death penalty held lighted candles in silent protest as Mr. Selby was executed. Nearby, 50 supporters of capital punishment sang mock dirges.

    But in Starke, Fla., only eight opponents and one backer of the death penalty turned out for Mr. White's death. In Alabama, there was a vigil near the Governor's mansion but no demonstration near the prison.

    Mr. Selby, condemned to die for the three murders at the Ogden Hi-Fi Shop in 1974, spent the day fasting, praying, singing hymns and reading the Bible, according to a Utah State prison spokesman, Juan Benavidez.

    The prison warden, Gerald Cook, said the inmate asked that his remaining $29 be given to William Andrews, another death row inmate.

    Asked if he had anything further to say, Mr. Selby told Mr. Cook, ''Thank you, I'm just going to say my prayers.''

    He was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber and then injected with three drugs to put him to sleep, paralyze his lungs and stop his heart.

    The execution was Utah's first since Gary Gilmore faced a firing squad in January 1977, ending a 10-year national moratorium on the death penalty. Executioner Was Paid $150

    When Mr. White was asked if he had any last words, he shook his head and said, faintly, ''No, sir.'' The power to the electric chair was turned on by a black-hooded executioner who was paid $150.

    Mr. White was condemned for his role in the 1977 shooting of eight people, six fatally, in the robbery of a small-time drug dealer's home in the Miami suburb of Carol City. Mr. White stood guard.

    One of Mr. White's co-defendants, Marvin Francois, died in the electric chair on May 29, 1985, while another co-defendant, John Ferguson, awaits electrocution. Killer Jokes With Guards

    Although Mr. Ritter did not fire the fatal shot in the death of the pawnbroker, Eddie Nassar, the defendant threatened jurors at his trial and demanded the death penalty. Later, he voiced remorse and filed appeals. His accomplice in the crime, John Louis Evans 3d, was executed in 1983.

    As his head was shaved for the execution, Mr. Ritter was ''still laughing and joking and did shake hands with the guards,'' the prison commissioner, Morris Thigpen, said. Mr. Ritter declined to make a final statement.

    Mr. Ritter smiled broadly and gave a thumbs-up sign to the prison chaplain, Joseph Kolb, after he was strapped into the yellow electric chair at Holman Prison.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/29/us...xecuted&st=nyt

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