[FADPUpdate] Stay Lifted

[melliott3 at aol.com]

Friends,

The stay of execution for Mark Schwab has been lifted.  After 18 months 
without an execution, the State of Florida is about to re-start the 
killing of captive prisoners.

Death Warrants do not expire.  It is not necessary for the governor to 
sign a new warrant for this execution, just set a date and leave it up 
to the D.O.C. to carry out the killing in the name of the "People of 
the State of Florida."

More and more Floridians are speaking up and demanding a better way to 
help the victims of violent crime and their families...a better way to 
protect the people of Florida...a better way to a safer, more humane 
and less violent Florida.

Please help in any way you can.  Join a group.  Make a donation.  Plan 
an awareness event.  Take action by writing letters-to-the-editor and 
contacting Governor Crist and your elected Florida representatives.  
Sign on the to the Florida campaign.

Please speak up and speak out.  For more info go to: www.fadp.org.

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step 
toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; 
the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated 
individuals." ---MLK Jr.

Shine the light,

---Mark

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May 19, 2008


Supreme Court rejects Schwab appeal

Eun Kyung Kim
News Journal Washington bureau

A new date for Mark Dean Schwab's execution will soon be set.

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning lifted a stay that blocked Schwab's 
execution in November. Schwab faces the death penalty for the 1991 
torture, rape and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum asked the high court in April to 
lift the stay after justices ruled in a Kentucky case that upheld the 
constitutionality of lethal injection.

"He has an active warrant and we await word from the governor's office 
concerning setting a date," said Joellyn Rackleff, a spokeswoman for 
the Department of Corrections.

In April, Gov. Charlie Crist said "justice is waiting" after the U.S. 
Supreme Court ruling that put Florida back on a path to carry out death 
sentences again after an 18-month hiatus in Florida.

A spokesman for Crist said the governor's office would have more detail 
about what's next later today.

Schwab has an outstanding motion for rehearing with the Florida Supreme 
Court.

But Assistant State Attorney Wayne Holmes said in April it is basically 
a matter of paperwork before they are resolved.

"Realistically, we could see his execution by June," Holmes said last 
month. "All of the issues have clearly been removed."

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Sent by:

Mark Elliott
Executive Director
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, FADP.org

2840 W. Bay Drive, #118
Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770
(727)215-9646
mark at fadp.org