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Death penalty future rides on Schwab execution

Death penalty future rides on Schwab executionMuch will be at stake when the curtains part on Florida's death chamber atFlorida State Prison this evening. It will be one of the most importantdays in the history of the state's ultimate punishment.Pending an unlikely 11th-hour stay, Mark Dean Schwab will be strapped to agurney to face a 6 p.m. death by lethal injection. Schwab, 39, iscondemned for abducting, raping and killing an 11-year-old boy in Cocoa, asmall town on Florida's east coast.If Schwab's death appears peaceful, executions in Florida could rev up forthe first time in 2 years. But if anything goes wrong, the state's deathpenalty system will be in turmoil again.Florida's death penalty has been at a standstill since the Dec...continue to full post

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