FADP: Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty


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Yes Florida, There is an ALTERNATIVE to the Death Penalty

This chart has a listing for each date that there was a possible execution.
Therefore, some prisoners are listed more than once.

Prisoners who waived their appeals and
received "Suicide-by-Governor" are indicated in red.
As of 5 April 05, 8 of Jeb Bush's 17 exterminations were "Volunteers" for execution.

Number of Attemped Killings	NAME	Date of 1st Warrant	Date of scheduled Execution	Date of Stay	Stay Issued By	Date of subsequent Warrant	COMMENTS	OUTCOME
1	ALLEN LEE DAVIS	06/09/99	07/08/99	---	---	---	Botched execution. See FL Sup. Ct. opinion, Provenzano v. Moore (09/24/99). Diabetic / handicapped	EXECUTED: 07/08/99
2	THOMAS PROVENZANO	06/09/99	07/07/99	07/05/99	Governor	See Below‘ Thomas Provenzano’	---	---
3	THOMAS PROVENZANO	---	---	07/06/99	Florida Sup. Ct.	See Below	---	---
4	THOMAS PROVENZANO	---	---	07/08/99	Florida Sup. Ct.	See Below	See Below (Thomas Provenzano	---
5	TERRY MELVIN SIMS	09/23/99	10/21/99	10/26/99	Florida Sup. Ct.	---	See Below	---
6	TERRY MELVIN SIMS	See Above	See Above	---	---	01/26/00	Possible innocence, Brady violations. First to be executed by lethal injection in Florida.	EXECUTED: 02/23/00
Number of Attemped Killings	NAME	Date of 1st Warrant	Date of scheduled Execution	Date of Stay	Stay Issued By	Date of subsequent Warrant	COMMENTS	OUTCOME
7	ANTHONY BRADEN BRYAN	09/23/99	10/27/99	10/26/99	US Sup. Ct.	See Below	See Below	---
8	ANTHONY BRADEN BRYAN	See Above	See Above	---	---	01/26/00	Mitigating issues. Trial counsel (Ted Stokes) an alcoholic	EXECUTED: 02/24/00
9	BENNIE DEMPS	04/24/00	05/31/00	05/27/00	Florida Sup. Ct.	06-01-00	Possible innocence, State withholding exculpatory evidence. Botched execution.	EXECUTED: 06/07/00
10	THOMAS PROVENZANO	See Above ‘Thomas Provenzano’	See Above	06/21/00	11th Circuit Ct.	05/30/00	Mental illness / insanity. Psychotic at time of execution	EXECUTED: 06/21/00
11	DAN P. HAUSER	06/29/00	08/22/00	08/22/00	Fed. District Ct.	---	Bi-polar Disorder, Suicidal – ‘Volunteer’	EXECUTED: 08/25/00
12	EDWARD CASTRO	11/14/00	12/07/00	12/07/00	---	---	Mental Illness, Suicidal – ‘Volunteer’	EXECUTED: 12/07/00
Number of Attemped Killings	NAME	Date of 1st Warrant	Date of 1st scheduled Execution	Date of Stay	Stay Issued By	Date of subsequent Warrant	COMMENTS	OUTCOME
13	ROBERT GLOCK	11/14/00	12/08/00	---	Florida Sup. Ct.	---	Child abuse issues.	EXECUTED: 01/11/01
14	GREGORY MILLS	03/22/01	05/02/01	05/01/01	Trial Court Hon. O. H. Eaton	---	Resentencing – D/P overturned	Resentencing granted by trial court, affirmed by Florida Sup. Ct. 06/08/01
15	WAYNE TOMPKINS	03/23/01	05/01/01	04/18/01	Trial Court (Hillsborough County)	---	Possible innocence. Resentencing granted. State ‘lost’ DNA evidence.	Resentencing granted by trial court
16	ROBERT TREASE	11/19/01	02/07/02	02/06/02	Governor	---	Suicidal – ‘Volunteer’	---
17	LINROY BOTTOSON	11/19/01	02/05/02	02/05/02	US Sup. Ct.	Immediately following Ring decision 06/25/02 ?	Stayed due to Ring v. Arizona	U.S. Supreme Court denied issue
18	AMOS LEE KING, JR.	11/19/01	01/24/02	01/23/02	US Sup. Ct	Immediately following Ring decision - 06/25/02 ?	Stayed due to Ring v. Arizona.	U.S. Supreme Court denied issue
Number of Attemped Killings	NAME	Date of 1st Warrant	Date of scheduled Execution	Date of Stay	Stay Issued By	Date of subsequent Warrant	COMMENTS	OUTCOME
19	LINROY BOTTOSON	11/19/01	07/08/02	07/08/02	Florida Supreme Court (FSC)	11/14/02	Stayed due to FSC, Ring v. Arizona	Florida Supreme Court denied issue
20	AMOS LEE KING, JR.	11/19/01	07/10/02	07/08/02	Florida Supreme Court (FSC)	11/14/02	Stayed due to FSC, Ring v. Arizona	Florida Supreme Court denied issue
21	RIGOBERTO SANCHEZ-VELASCO	09/05/02	10/02/02	---	---	---	Suicidal - ‘Volunteer’	EXECUTED: 10/02/02
22	AILEEN WUORNOS	09/05/02	10/09/02	---	---	---	Suicidal - ‘Volunteer’	EXECUTED 10/09/02
23	AMOS LEE KING, JR.	11/19/01	12/02/02	12/02/02	Governor	02/05/03	Stay Issued for DNA test	DNA test inconclusive
24	LINROY BOTTOSON	11/19/01	12/06/02	12/06/02	Governor	12/09/02	Stayed to test sanity	Found competent
25	LINROY BOTTOSON	11/19/01	12/09/02	---	---	---	Insane	EXECUTED: 12/09/02
26	AMOS LEE KING, JR.	11/19/01	02/26/03	---	---	---	Possible Innocence	EXECUTED: 02/26/03
27	NEWTON CARLTON SLAWSON	4/14/03	05/15/03	5/15/2003	Governor	5/15/2003	Slawson has given up his appeals and exhibits symptoms of mental illness	---
28	NEWTON CARLTON SLAWSON	4/14/03	07/08/99	---	---	---	Mentally Ill	EXECUTED: 07/08/99
29	PAUL HILL	7/9/03	9/3/03	---	---	---	Hill volunteered to be martyred for the anti-abortion cause.	EXECUTED: 9/3/03
30	JOHNNY L. ROBINSON	12/18/03	02/04/04	---	---	---	Case exhibits racism among other failures of the system	EXECUTED: 02/04/04
31	JOHN BLACKWELDER	4/29/04	5/25/04	5/25/04	Governor	---	Blackwelder murdered in order to receive assisted suicide.	--
32	JOHN BLACKWELDER	4/29/04	5/26/04	---	---	---	Assisted Suicide	EXECUTED: 05/26/04
33	RAVEN RAVEN (AKA Glen Ocha)	3/4/05	4/5/05	---	----	---	assisted suicide.	EXECUTED: 04/05/05
34	CLARENCE HILL	11/29/05	1/24/06	1/24/06	SCOTUS	`8/17/06`	Hill was on the gurney with needles inserted for two hours waiting for word of the stay	--
35	ARTHUR D. RUTHERFORD	11/29/05	1/31/06	01/31/06	SCOTUS	---	----	----
36	CLARENCE HILL	11/29/05	09/20/06	---	---	8-17-2006	--	EXECUTED 09/20/06
37	ARTHUR D. RUTHERFORD	11/29/05	10/18/06	---	--	00/09/06	----	EXECUTED 10/18/06
38	DANNY H.ROLLING	9/06	10/25/06	---	---	---	Danny Rolling is insane.	EXECUTED 10/25/06
39	ANGEL DIAZ	11/14/06	12/13/06	---	---	---	---	EXECUTED 12/13/06
Number of Attemped Killings	NAME	Date of 1st Warrant	Date of scheduled Execution	Date of Stay	Stay Issued By	Date of subsequent Warrant	COMMENTS	OUTCOME

* * This date may not reflect the signing of first warrant in the case, but rather first warrant in that case
----signed by Governor Bush.
** This date may not reflect the signing of second warrant in the case, but rather second warrant in that
----case signed by Governor Bush.

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