Execution rescheduled to accommodate Pam Bondi fundraiser

[meegbear]

Source: Tampabay.com

There is no graver responsibility and act of state government than an execution. In Florida this week, a campaign fundraiser takes precedence. Attorney General Pam Bondi persuaded Gov. Rick Scott to postpone an execution scheduled for tonight because it conflicted with her re-election kick-off reception.

"What's going on down there? It's ridiculous," said Phyllis Novick, the Ohio mother of one of Marshall Lee Gore's victims, when told Monday about the reason for the delay. Gore, 50, raped, strangled and stabbed 30-year-old Robyn Novick in 1988 before dumping her body into a Miami-Dade County trash heap. Gore was also sentenced to die for the slaying of 19-year-old Susan Roark, whose body was found a few months later in Columbia County.

Gore was initially scheduled for execution in June, but the date was twice delayed because of legal skirmishes over Gore's sanity. After Scott last month rescheduled the execution for Sept. 10, the date of Bondi's "hometown campaign kickoff" at her South Tampa home, Bondi's office asked that it be postponed. The new date is Oct. 1.

Scott said Monday that he did not know the reason for the request, and he declined to answer when asked whether he considers a campaign fundraiser an appropriate reason to reschedule an execution.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/execution-rescheduled-to-accommodate-pam-bondi-fundraiser/2140891

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WTF Florida???

[onehandle]

1. God I miss the South.

I'll be seeing a play with my wife in South Philly tonight.

Close, fucking, enough.

[struggle4progress]

2. I guess executions really are primarily political events

[msanthrope]

3. I would file an appeal immediately, citing capriciousness as an 8th

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amendment violation.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Truly ugly, high-handed, slimy. Apparently the government is meant to serve

their convenience.

This is cheap, ignorant, offensive self-centeredness.

[tanyev]

5. Aha! Now we know one fool-proof way to get a Republican to delay an execution.

[christx30]

6. This story actually caused a physical wave

of neausea when I read that. How can someone have such little regard for the life of a human being? I mean, Gore is a rapist and murderer, and I won't shed a tear to see him die. But taking his life should be a solemn thing. Not just another appointment that can be put off to do a fundraiser. It's not a damned dentist appointment. The man is paying the ultimate price for some terrible deeds. This is a sentence that was imposed on him as the ultimate price for some terrible deeds. Have enough respect for the concept of life, and the families of his victims to take it seriously.

[dogknob]

7. Reminds me of something...

...something I saw in a film the MSM spent 40 years trying to suppress and lose...

[Wolf Frankula]

8. That's Noll Reed

The boozy werewolf.

Wolf

[red dog 1]

9. Thanks meegbear for posting this.

These Republicans are despicable.

Are there any Democrats in state-wide office in Florida?

This scumbag Rick Scott has to go, and so do all the Republicans in Florida who hold state-wide office, including Pam Bondi.

The Democrats need to defeat Rick Scott next year, and Bondi, and the FLA Secretary of State.
Ken Detzner

In Florida, Democrats outnumber Republicans.
(Dems 4,670,271 to Repubs 4,169,510)

[Snake Plissken]

10. I thought this was going to contain a link to The Onion.

can we reschedule the killing, I need to prostitute myself for money that evening and I'd sure hate to miss a good killing.