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A state witness, a jailhouse informant, admitted to providing false testimony at Tompkins? original trial in 1985.

News - Breaking News Monday, Nov. 24, 2008 Inmate again faces execution $javascriptRequire = new miScriptScheduler(); $javascriptRequire.scriptCheck = window.mi_story_tool; $javascriptRequire.scriptPath = "http://media.bradenton.com/static/scripts/mi/pubsys/story_tools_oo.js"; $javascriptRequire.scheduleScript(); http://www.bradenton.com/news/breaking_news/story/1052182.html TAMPA ? A Florida inmate faces execution despite new revelations that the state prompted a trial witness to lie, according to a news report from the Death Penalty Information Center. Inmate Wayne Tompkins was to be executed Oct. 28, but was granted a stay of execution to allow time for the state Supreme Court to review his case. Tompkins, 51, has been on death row since September 1985 for a March 24, 1983, murder in Hillsborough County, according to information from the Florida Department of Corrections...continue to full post

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