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Three decades after brutally stabbing to death 4 people, man will be killed by lethal injection
If all goes according to the state of Florida's plan, Jerry Correll will be a dead man around 6:15 p.m. Thursday.
Three decades after brutally stabbing to death his 5-year-old daughter, ex-wife and her sister and mother, the 59-year-old Correll will receive a lethal injection that will kill him.
It is the first in the nation using the controversial sedative midazolam since the U.S. Supreme Court OK'd its use in June, despite several botched executions in Oklahoma, Ohio and Arizona.
The state set Correll's execution in February, but it was delayed pending the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court case on midazolam brought by Oklahoma prisoners.
The high court ruled that the inmates' attorneys did not prove the drug was cruel and unusual punishment.
"People will be watching but they will be watching with concern because the evidence has shown that executions that use midazolam are not fool-proof and there have been botched executions using this drug," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center.
While Florida has continued to use the drug, other states like Ohio have stopped using it altogether.
Inmates have gasped, snorted and clenched their fist in the botched executions which prolonged the deaths. In an Oklahoma case, Charles Warner said "my body is on fire" before dying.
But the execution could not have come sooner for the family of victims: Correll's ex-wife Susan Correll, their daughter Tuesday and Susan's mother Mary Lou Hines, and sister, Marybeth Jones.
"Thirty years is much too long for this sentence to be carried out," said Judi Duff, Hines' niece earlier this year.
Prosecutors said Correll killed his ex-wife because he was jealous that she was dating. After stabbing Susan to death at their home in the Conway area, he had sex with her body, prosecutors said.
Hines protected Tuesday before he stabbed both of them to death in Tuesday's bedroom. Jones was not home at the time, and Correll awaited her to come home before he killed her sometime after midnight on June 30, 1985.
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 his alibi never checked out. He was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder. A jury voted 10-2 to sentence him to death.
In his appeals, his lawyers said 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.
There was appeal and after appeal in the case before running out last year.
Correll's execution, the second in Florida this year, will take place at Florida State Prison in Raiford, about 40 miles northeast of Gainesville.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...execution-florida-preview-20151028-story.html
If all goes according to the state of Florida's plan, Jerry Correll will be a dead man around 6:15 p.m. Thursday.
Three decades after brutally stabbing to death his 5-year-old daughter, ex-wife and her sister and mother, the 59-year-old Correll will receive a lethal injection that will kill him.
It is the first in the nation using the controversial sedative midazolam since the U.S. Supreme Court OK'd its use in June, despite several botched executions in Oklahoma, Ohio and Arizona.
The state set Correll's execution in February, but it was delayed pending the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court case on midazolam brought by Oklahoma prisoners.
The high court ruled that the inmates' attorneys did not prove the drug was cruel and unusual punishment.
"People will be watching but they will be watching with concern because the evidence has shown that executions that use midazolam are not fool-proof and there have been botched executions using this drug," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center.
While Florida has continued to use the drug, other states like Ohio have stopped using it altogether.
Inmates have gasped, snorted and clenched their fist in the botched executions which prolonged the deaths. In an Oklahoma case, Charles Warner said "my body is on fire" before dying.
But the execution could not have come sooner for the family of victims: Correll's ex-wife Susan Correll, their daughter Tuesday and Susan's mother Mary Lou Hines, and sister, Marybeth Jones.
"Thirty years is much too long for this sentence to be carried out," said Judi Duff, Hines' niece earlier this year.
Prosecutors said Correll killed his ex-wife because he was jealous that she was dating. After stabbing Susan to death at their home in the Conway area, he had sex with her body, prosecutors said.
Hines protected Tuesday before he stabbed both of them to death in Tuesday's bedroom. Jones was not home at the time, and Correll awaited her to come home before he killed her sometime after midnight on June 30, 1985.
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 his alibi never checked out. He was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder. A jury voted 10-2 to sentence him to death.
In his appeals, his lawyers said 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.
There was appeal and after appeal in the case before running out last year.
Correll's execution, the second in Florida this year, will take place at Florida State Prison in Raiford, about 40 miles northeast of Gainesville.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...execution-florida-preview-20151028-story.html
