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Execution Setting in Florida

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Today's Orlando Sentinel has a lengthy report, "Only Florida's governors can say how they pick execution order."  It's written by Sarah Lundy.Last month, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist decided it was time for John Marek and David Johnston to die. Crist picked out Marek and Johnston from nearly two dozen death-row inmates whose appeals are exhausted. Exactly how he came to pick those two prisoners -- and why -- is a subject only the governor can answer. He's not talking. And neither are former governors who have made similar decisions since Florida reinstated its death penalty in 1976. "I don't know how they decide," said Marek's lawyer, Marty McClain, a veteran death-row attorney who has defended hundreds of inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).