Feb. 11
FLORIDA----execution
Timeline of Wayne Tompkins case in Tampa slaying
Following is a timeline of some of the significant events in the case of
Wayne Tompkins, convicted in the death of a Tampa teenager more than 25
years ago:
March 24, 1983: Lisa DeCarr, 15, vanishes from home where she was living
with Tompkins, her mother, and 2 other children. Tompkins tells his
girlfriend, Barbara DeCarr, that Lisa ran away.
April 7, 1984: Tompkins robs a convenience store in Pasco County, abducts
and sexually assaults a clerk at knifepoint.
May 13, 1984: Tompkins robs another convenience store in Pasco County and
sexually assaults a clerk at knifepoint.
May 30, 1984: Tompkins arrested in Pasco County.
June 5, 1984: Lisa DeCarr's decomposed body is found buried under porch
of the home where she, Tompkins and her family had lived.
Sept. 14, 1984: Tompkins charged with murdering Lisa DeCarr.
Sept. 19, 1985: Tompkins found guilty of 1st-degree murder and by a vote
of 12-0 the jury recommends a death sentence. Tompkins sentenced to death.
March 23, 1988: Executive Clemency Board denies Tompkins.
March 30, 1989: Death warrant signed by Gov. Bob Martinez.
June 2, 1989: Florida Supreme Court grants stay of execution.
Nov. 9, 1989: Martinez signs 2nd death warrant.
Dec. 11, 1989: U.S. District Court grants stay of execution.
March 22, 2001: Gov. Jeb Bush signs 3rd death warrant.
April 19, 2001: Circuit Court grants stay of execution.
Oct. 2, 2008: Gov. Charlie Crist confirms execution date of Oct. 28,
2008.
Oct. 6, 2008: Florida Supreme Court stays execution until Nov. 18.
Nov. 13, 2008: Florida Supreme Court lifts stay.
Feb. 2, 2009: Crist sets Feb. 11 execution date.
Feb. 11, 2009: Tompkins executed at Florida State Prison.
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List of Fla. inmates executed by lethal injection
Following is a list of the inmates executed in Florida by lethal
injection:
1. Terry M. Sims, 58, became the first Florida inmate executed by
injection on Feb. 23, 2000. Sims died for the 1977 slaying of a volunteer
deputy sheriff in a central Florida robbery.
2. Anthony Bryan, 40, died from lethal injection Feb. 24, 2000, for the
1983 slaying of George Wilson, 60, a night watchman abducted from his job
at a seafood wholesaler in Pascagoula, Miss., and killed in Florida.
3. Bennie Demps, 49, died from lethal injection June 7, 2000, for the 1976
murder of another prison inmate, Alfred Sturgis. Demps spent 29 years on
death row before he was executed.
4. Thomas Provenzano, 51, died from lethal injection on June 21, 2000, for
a 1984 shooting at the Orange County courthouse in Orlando. Provenzano was
sentenced to death for the murder of William "Arnie" Wilkerson, 60.
5. Dan Patrick Hauser, 30, died from lethal injection on Aug. 25, 2000,
for the 1995 murder of Melanie Rodrigues, a waitress and dancer in Destin.
Hauser dropped all his legal appeals.
6. Edward Castro, died from lethal injection on Dec. 7, 2000, for the 1987
choking and stabbing death of 56-year-old Austin Carter Scott, who was
lured to Castro's efficiency apartment in Ocala by the promise of Old
Milwaukee beer. Castro dropped all his appeals.
7. Robert Glock, 39 died from lethal injection on Jan. 11, 2001, for the
kidnapping murder of Sharilyn Ritchie, a Manatee County teacher. She was
kidnapped outside a Bradenton shopping mall and taken to a Pasco County
orange grove, where she was robbed and killed. Glock's co-defendant Robert
Puiatti remains on death row.
8. Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco, 43, died of lethal injection on Oct. 2,
2002, after dropping appeals from his conviction in the December 1986
rape-slaying of 11-year-old Katixa "Kathy" Ecenarro in Hialeah.
Sanchez-Velasco also killed 2 fellow inmates while on death row.
9. Aileen Wuornos, 46, died from lethal injection on Oct. 9, 2002, after
dropping appeals for deaths of six men along central Florida highways. Her
story was made into the movie "Monster."
10. Linroy Bottoson, 63, died of lethal injection on Dec. 9, 2002, for the
1979 murder of Catherine Alexander, who was robbed, held captive for 83
hours, stabbed 16 times and then fatally crushed by a car.
11. Amos King, 48, executed by lethal injection Feb. 26, 2003, for the
March 18, 1977, slaying of 68-year-old Natalie Brady in her Tarpon Springs
home. King was a work-release inmate in a nearby prison.
12. Newton Slawson, 48, executed May 16, 2003, by lethal injection for the
April 11, 1989, slaying of 4 members of a Tampa family. Slawson was
convicted in the shooting deaths of Gerald and Peggy Wood, who was 8 1/2
months pregnant, and their 2 young children, Glendon, 3, and Jennifer, 4.
Slawson sliced Peggy Wood's body with a knife and pulled out her fetus,
which had 2 gunshot wounds and multiple cuts.
13. Paul Hill, 49, executed Sept. 3, 2003, for the July 29, 1994, shooting
deaths of Dr. John Bayard Britton and his bodyguard, retired Air Force Lt.
Col. James Herman Barrett, and the wounding of Barrett's wife outside the
Ladies Center in Pensacola.
14. Johnny Robinson, died by lethal injection on Feb. 4, 2004, for the
Aug. 12, 1985, slaying of Beverly St. George, who was traveling from Plant
City to Virginia in August 1985 when her car broke down on Interstate 95,
south of St. Augustine. He abducted her at gunpoint, took her to a
cemetery, raped her and killed her.
15. John Blackwelder, 49, was executed by injection on May 26, 2004, for
the calculated slaying in May 2000 of Raymond Wigley, who was serving a
life term for murder. Blackwelder, who was serving a life sentence for a
series of sex convictions, pleaded guilty to the slaying so he would
receive the death penalty.
16. Glen Ocha, 47, executed by injection, April 5, 2005, for the October
1999 strangulation of 28-year-old convenience store employee Carol
Skjerva, who had driven him to his Osceola County home and had sex with
him. He had dropped all appeals.
17. Clarence Hill, 48, executed by injection, Sept. 20, 2006, for the 1982
murder of Pensacola Police Officer Stephen Taylor following a savings and
loan robbery.
18. Arthur Rutherford, 57, executed by injection on Oct. 18, 2006, for the
1985 murder 63-year-old Stella Salamon of Milton. Her naked body was found
submerged in the bathtub of her home.
19. Danny Harold Rolling, 52, executed by injection on Oct. 25, 2006, for
the mutilation, rape and slayings of five college students in Gainesville
in August 1990. After his death, Rolling's pastor in Shreveport, La.,
released a letter in which Rolling admitted to 3 slayings there in 1989.
20. Angel Nieves Diaz, 55, executed by injection on Dec. 13, 2006, for the
Dec. 22, 1979, shooting death of Joseph Nagy, manager of the Velvet Swing
Lounge in Miami during a robbery. Diaz' execution took 34 minutes and
prompted Gov. Jeb Bush to issue a moratorium on executions while a state
panel examined Florida's death penalty.
21. Mark Dean Schwab, 39, executed July 1, 2008, for the April 18, 1991,
slaying of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez in Cocoa. Schwab kidnapped
Junny and sexually assaulted him before killing him. Schwab had recently
been released from prison on another sexual charge when the slaying
occurred. It led to the passage of the Junny Rios-Martinez law, which
prevents the early release of sex offenders from prison.
22. Richard Henyard, 34, executed Sept. 23, 2008, for the Jan. 30, 1993,
carjacking and slaying of 2 young sisters after he raped and shot their
mother. Henyard was executed by lethal injection for the shooting deaths
of 7-year-old Jamilya Lewis and her 3-year-old sister, Jasmine. Henyard
and a 14-year-old accomplice raped and shot Dorothy Lewis several times.
23. Wayne Tompkins, 51, executed Feb. 11, 2009, for the March 24, 1983,
strangulation of 15-year-old Lisa DeCarr, who disappeared from the Tampa
home she shared with Tompkins and her mother. Her body was found under the
porch a year later.
(source for both: Associated Press)
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