Date Set For Child Killer's Execution
POSTED: Monday, May 19, 2008
UPDATED: 4:50 pm EDT May 19,
2008
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida plans to execute child killer Mark Dean Schwab on July 1.
Gov. Charlie Crist set the date Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution for Schwab. He had originally been scheduled to die last November but was given a reprieve while justices considered the constitutionality of lethal injection procedures.
The court upheld the use of lethal injection in a Kentucky case a month ago.
Crist declined to comment extensively on the new death warrant.
Schwab faces death for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez in 1991.
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