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Time, Appeals Running Out For Death Row Inmate----Mark Dean Schwab Is Scheduled To Die On Tuesday

June 30FLORIDA----impending executionTime, Appeals Running Out For Death Row Inmate----Mark Dean Schwab IsScheduled To Die On TuesdayTime and appeals are running out for Florida death row inmate Mark DeanSchwab who is scheduled to be put to death this week for the rape andmurder of an 11-year old girl.Schwab's attorney said he's filing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Courtasking the high court to consider the case and issue a stay of execution.For the first time since a botched execution nearly 2 years ago, FloridaDepartment of Corrections officials are preparing to execute a condemnedinmate.Schwab, 39, is scheduled to die on Tuesday; 16 years after he wassentenced in the 1991 kidnapping, rape and murder of Junny Rios-Martinez.Schwab raped and killed Junny a month after he was released early from aprison sentence he got for raping a 13-year-old boy, who was from Cocoa...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 01, 2008 (boomark / email).