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2005 News Articles
Selected news articles and commentary
with relevance to the death penalty in Florida and Nationally.
These articles are posted here as an educational service without permission but with full attribution and, when possible, links to the original source of the material. Items are posted with the most recent at the top. This page will be updated regularly, but not necessarily every day. Please check back regularly.
- December 30, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Questions about a snitch
- December 29, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Dedge case raises issues for lawmakers
- December 25, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - The innocent deserve more from Floridians
- December 25, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - For 3rd time, killer awaits fate
- December 24, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - DNA results call for new trial
- December 16, 2005 - DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL - Uniform payback - State owes the wrongfully convicted
- December 15, 2005 - TAMPA TRIBUNE - Life On Death Row Exposes The Spirit
- December 5, 2005 - SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE - Many jurors scarred by trials
- December 4, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - A matter of fairness
- December 2, 2005 - BRADENTON HERALD - Florida's death row
- December 2, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - BACK TO BUSINESS - COMPENSATING DEDGE
- November 30, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Gov. Bush signs 2 death warrants; executions set for January
- Noverber 28, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Letters to the editors - There's no evidence executions make society any safer
- Noverber 23, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - The death penalty's fatal flaws
- November 2 , 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Crist: Hands off death penalty law
- October 31, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - A threat to due process
- October 31, 2005 - BRADENTON HERALD - Death penalty plays huge role in jury selection
- October 23, 2005 - TAMPA TRIBUNE - Death Penalty Review Possible
- October 21, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Do we love the death penalty too much?
- October 20, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Death penalty may require unanimous jury
- October 18, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Fix Florida's death penalty
- October 12, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Florida Supreme Court urges Legislature to re-examine death penalty
- September 15, 2005 - FSVIEW - Exonerated man speaks out
- September 12, 2005 - FOX NEWS 13 - Fox interviews Juan Melendez - 6Mb WMV video file
- September 8, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Crusade vs. executions, book bring nun to area
- September 3, 2005 - DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL - Hat in hand
- September 2, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Do the right thing for Dedge
- August 28, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Killer's name not spoken by families
- August 28, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Families mixed on attending Rolling's execution
- August 28, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - What if killings occurred today?
- August 28, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Waiting for Justice: Families talk about lost 'possibilities'
- August 27, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Waiting for justice: Serial killer has picked fights with inmates
- August 27, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Waiting for justice: Victims' families reunite to mark the anniversary
- August 27, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Waiting for justice: Crime pays
- August 26, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Unfair trial? Too bad
- August 26, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Where are they now?
- August 26, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - A murderer killing time
- August 26, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Sides disagree about long appeals process
- August 19, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Forever looking for a way out
- August 16, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Mordenti found guilty - again
- August 14, 2005 - FLORIDA TODAY - DNA, Diaz, Dedge
- August 13, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Both sides rest in murder trial
- August 13, 2005 - TAMPA TRIBUNE - Attorneys Try To Discredit Defendant's Ex-Wife
- August 11, 2005 - TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT - Meyer spared death penalty
- August 11, 2005 - TAMPA BAY ONLINE - Being Asked To Recruit Hit Man Not `A Nice Thing,' Witness Says
- August 10, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Star witness again names ex-husband
- August 10, 2005 - TAMPA BAY ONLINE - Wife Testifies In Murder-For-Hire Case
- August 9, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Third trial for Mordenti begins
- August 8, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Make DNA testing routine practice
- August 7, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Justice Stevens criticizes death penalty
- August 7, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Case points out trouble with eyewitness accounts
- August 7, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - 'I'm still . . . doing time'
- August 7, 2005 - SCOTSMAN - We're going to send 2,200 volts of electricity through you - any questions?
- August 6 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Gov. Bush Orders Florida Authorities to Preserve DNA Evidence
- August 5, 2005 - LA TIMES - In Florida Rape Case, 'There Is No Time Limit to Justice'
- August 5, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Man won't face death penalty in third trial
- August 4, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - DNA Exonerates Man 25 Years After Conviction in String of Rapes
- July 29, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Speaking for the innocent
- July 14, 2005 - BRADFORD COUNTY TELEGRAPH - Gill pleads guilty to murder
- July 09, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Murderer begs judge to give him death sentence
- June 22, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Man wants no speedy second trial
- June 17, 2005 - NEWS JOURNAL - Capital cover for the loss of real social control
- June 17, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Condemned man asks for death
- June 17, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Pulitzer Winner Gene Miller of The Miami Herald Dies at 76
- June 09, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Confessed Killer on Death Row for 31 Years Loses Appeal
- June 07, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - A speedy retrial may help man's defense
- May 18, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Whom to believe? Jury couldn't decide
- May 18, 2005 - TAMPA TRIBUNE - Mistrial Ends Murder Retrial
- May 17, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Mistrial for Mordenti
- May 17, 2005 - BAY 9 NEWS - Jury deadlocks in Hillsborough murder trial
- May 17, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Are Mordenti's own words the key?
- May 15, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Legislators indifferent to innocents
- May 15, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Romantic linkage key to defense strategy
- May 13, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Mordenti's former wife: 'He did it'
- May 12, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Convicted killer faces accuser at new trial
- May 11, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES -'Hard cash' drove murder plot, prosecutor says as retrial starts
- May 10, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Evidence shapes retrial in murder
- May 9, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - A shameful failure
- May 6, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP Exclusive: Race, geography can decide death penalty cases
- May 4, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Freed by DNA, man waits for state to pay
- May 2, 2005 - CNN - Barred no more
- April 26, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Day in Tallahassee, Tuesday, April 26, 2005
- April 26, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - A monstrous injustice
- April 23, 2005 - REUTERS - Jeb Bush Given 'Pause' When at Odds with Church
- April 20, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Day in Tallahassee, Wednesday, April 20, 2005
- April 20, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Time running short for wrongly convicted
- April 19, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Day in Tallahassee, Tuesday, April 19, 2005
- April 19, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Inmate's death-row retrial bid is rejected
- April 18, 2005 - TIME - When a Killer Wants to Die
- April 18, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Judge Denies DNA-Based Appeal by Death Row Inmate Tommy Zeigler
- April 16, 2005 - DAYTONA NEWS JOURNAL - Protecting life
- April 14, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Make compensation fair, automatic
- April 13, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Putting a price on unjust prison time
- April 12, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Senate Panel OKs $5 Million Cap for Wrongfully Committed
- April 11, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Freed man waits for state to pay
- April 6, 2005 - INDEPENDENT FLORIDA ALLIGATOR - No stay; State executes Ocha
- April 10, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - For governor, preserving life is paramount, sometimes
- April 6, 2005 - GAINESVILLE SUN - Man executed for '99 slaying
- April 6, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Man gets wish: his execution
- April 6, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - After words of remorse, killer is executed
- April 6, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Killer who wanted to die is executed
- April 5, 2005 - CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Execution Today - Governor 'Thought About' Stay to Honor the P
- April 5, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Florida Inmate Who Dropped Appeals Executed for 1999 Slaying
- April 5, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Gov. Bush Almost Delayed Execution Because of Pope's Death
- April 5, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Confessed killer is set to die today
- April 5, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Woman's Killer Scheduled for Execution, Wants No Appeals
- April 4, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Woman's Killer Scheduled for Execution Tuesday; Wants No Appeals
- April 3, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Putting a (low) price on life
- April 3, 2005 - PALM BEACH POST - No law for 'taking' of man's life
- April 3, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Killer close to death he sought
- April 2, 2005 - FLORIDA TIMES UNION - Judge: Corrections chief must stand trial
- April 1, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Florida Prisons Head to Stand Trial in Wrongful Death Lawsuit
- March 31, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - For 22 years in jail, panel offers $200,000
- March 31, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Intentional injustice
- March 30, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wrongly Convicted Could Seek $200,000 From State
- March 29, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - And justice for all
- March 29, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Woman may avoid death row
- March 29, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - New Sentencing for Only Woman on Florida's Death Row
- March 25, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - No time for innocence
- March 25, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Undisclosed evidence may free man from death row
- March 24, 2005 - SUN-SENTINEL - Bill seeks financial aid for those wrongfully imprisoned
- March 24, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Florida Court Strikes 1985 Murder Conviction of Death Row Inmate
- March 22, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Lawmaker Asks High Court for Names of Bad Lawyers
- March 22, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Erring on the side of death
- March 22, 2005 - LA TIMES - U.S. Catholic bishops intensify campaign against death penalty
- March 21, 2005 - THE NATION - Too young to die
- March 20, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Conscience is inconvenient in Tallahassee
- March 18, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Prosecutors will retry man in murder plot
- March 14, 2005 - HOUSTON CHRONICLE - Ballistics lab results questioned in 3 cases
- March 13, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Death is served after a fine meal
- March 9, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Eliminate the death penalty
- March 5, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Death row inmate's appeal championed by legal giant
- March 5, 2005 - CANADIAN PRESS - Former Fla. death row inmate brings crusade against death penalty to Toronto
- March 4, 2005 - AP - Gov. Bush Signs Death Warrant for Osceola County Killer
- March 4, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Osceola killer receives wish: A date with death
- March 4, 2005 - TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT - Cantero puts another chink in privatization's armor
- March 3, 2005 - TRUTH OUT - U.S. Finally Outlaws Execution of Children
- March 3, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Too many ifs dealing with death penalty
- March 3, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Young killers spared capital punishment
- March 2, 2005 - NAPLES DAILY NEWS - SW Florida officials react to death penalty ruling
- March 2, 2005 - St PETE TIMES - 18 is threshold for death penalty
- March 2, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Justice used science to arrive at decision
- March 2, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Justices: States can't execute juveniles
- March 2, 2005 - PALM BEACH POST - Killer of two in Palm Beach County in 1981 will move off Death Row
- March 2, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Ruling will spare 3 Florida killers
- March 2, 2005 - SUN SENTINEL - 3 Fla. convicts spared death after high court ends juvenile executions
- March 2, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - 3 state Death Row inmates impacted
- March 1, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Three on Florida Death Row Benefit From U.S. Supreme Court Ruling
- February 24, 2005 - INDEPENDENT FLORIDA ALLIGATOR - Former death row inmate shares story
- February 20, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Find a way to compensate Dedge, now
- February 16, 2005 - TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT - Former death row inmate advocates bill for lawsuits
- February 12, 2005 - SUN-SENTINEL - Teen to be tried as adult in killing of Lauderdale doctor
- February 12, 2005 - DAYTONA BEACH NEWS JOURNAL - Justice after Dedge
- February 12, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Adding to the injustice
- February 10, 2005 - MIAMI HERALD - Inmate fights death a 4th time
- February 4, 2005 - DAYTONA BEACH NEWS JOURNAL - Innocent man seeks compensation for 22 years in Florida prison
- January 31, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - A privatization failure
- January 29, 2005 - PALM BEACH POST - Poor lawyering could endanger state's death penalty, some fear
- January 21, 2005 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Man Freed From Prison to Ask State for $4.9 Million
- January 14, 2005 - ORLANDO SENTINEL - Death-row inmate wins resentencing
- January 1, 2005 - St PETERSBURG TIMES - Court shows scorn for civil rights
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