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First death warrant to be signed post-Baze in Florida?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Press accounts in Florida are reporting that Gov. Charlie Crist ordered his staff to complie “a short list of among those that are eligible that are among the most heinous of cases for me to consider to sign an additional death warrant,” the governor said. The Supreme Court had stayed Mark Schwab’s execution in Florida pending Baze v. Rees, as it had stayed the execution of several other death row inmates in other states. Now that Baze is decided an order lifting the stay for Schwab and the others may come within days. We’ll be gathering and posting in the column to the immediate right, “above the fold” all pending execution dates as received.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).