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~ Mark Asay, 24Aug17, (FL) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: July 3, 2017, 10:43 pm
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Man who killed 2 in Jacksonville in 1987 set for execution next
month--
Mark Asay would be first put to death in Florida in 18 months
Monday, July 3, 2017
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Gov. Rick Scott on Monday ordered Mark
James Asay to be executed on August 24 on his conviction for the
shooting deaths of two men nearly 30 years ago.
His death would end an 18-month hiatus for the state's embattled
death penalty.
Asay was convicted in 1988 of the murders of Robert Lee Booker
and Robert McDowell in downtown Jacksonville. Asay allegedly
shot Booker, who was black, after calling him a racial epithet.
He then killed McDowell, who was dressed as a woman, after
agreeing to pay him for oral sex. According to court documents,
Asay later told a friend that McDowell had previously cheated
him out of money in a drug deal.
Asay was granted a stay last year after the Florida Supreme
Court found that Florida's death penalty was unconstitutional
because it did not require unanimous jury recommendations for
execution. In 2016, Florida lawmakers rewrote the death
sentencing law, requiring jurors to unanimously find that at
least one aggravating factor existed before a defendant could be
eligible for a death sentence and requiring at least 10 jurors
in order for the death sentence to be imposed.
In October, the Florida Supreme Court struck down part of the
new law, finding that it was unconstitutional because it did not
require unanimous jury recommendations for death sentences, but
in December it modified the unanimous rule to only apply to
convictions made before 2002. It also lifted the stay on Asay's
execution.
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Re: ~ Mark Asay, 24Aug17, (FL) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: August 15, 2017, 5:04 am
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Florida Supreme Court says yes to 1st execution in 18 months--
Mark Asay scheduled to be executed on Aug. 24
Monday, August 14, 2017
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Rejecting arguments about a new
lethal-injection procedure, the Florida Supreme Court on Monday
refused to block the scheduled Aug. 24 execution of Death Row
inmate Mark James Asay.
Asay, 53, who was convicted in the 1987 killings of Robert Lee
Booker and Robert McDowell in downtown Jacksonville, is
scheduled to be the first inmate executed in Florida since Oscar
Ray Bolin on Jan. 7, 2016.
The court's majority said Asay had not shown that the
introduction of the drug etomidate into the execution process
put him at risk of suffering in violation of the U.S.
Constitution. Corrections officials plan to use etomidate as a
substitute for a previous drug, midazolam, as the first drug in
a three-step process. It would be the first time etomidate, a
sedative, has been used in an execution.
In its decision, the Supreme Court upheld a ruling by a Duval
County circuit judge who held a hearing on the lethal-injection
drug issue.
“Based on the testimony heard during the evidentiary hearing and
the record before this (Supreme) Court, Asay has not
demonstrated that he is at substantial risk of serious harm,”
the majority opinion said. “Indeed, the record before this court
demonstrates that Asay is at a small risk of mild to moderate
pain.”
The majority opinion by Chief Justice Jorge Labarga and justices
Peggy Quince, Ricky Polston and Alan Lawson, also said Asay had
not “identified a known and available alternative method of
execution that entails a significantly less severe risk of
pain.”
Justices R. Fred Lewis and Charles Canady concurred with the
majority opinion but did not fully sign on to it.
Justice Barbara Pariente dissented on a series of grounds,
including that Asay was wrongly denied access to documents about
the new lethal-injection process. Pariente said the Florida
Department of Corrections delayed providing information and has
not provided some details, such as the reasons for adopting the
new process and the identity of the manufacturer of etomidate.
“Rather than giving Asay time to procure the documents needed to
challenge this never-before-used protocol, the state now
contends that time is of the essence in meeting the execution
deadline of August 24, 2017, chosen by Governor (Rick) Scott,”
Pariente wrote. “Even more troublesome, the state has
relentlessly fought Asay's attempts to obtain records relating
to the new protocol, causing even further delay. One would
assume that the administration of the ultimate penalty of death
would compel the state to proceed transparently, rather than
under the veil of executive privilege.”
Less than a week after the Bolin execution, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that Florida's death-penalty sentencing process was
unconstitutional because it gave too much authority to judges,
instead of juries, in deciding whether defendants should be
executed. The U.S. Supreme Court decision led to wide-ranging
litigation in Florida courts and moves by the Legislature to
revamp the sentencing process.
Scott signed a death warrant for Asay on Jan. 8, 2016, but the
U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the subsequent court cases and
legislative changes effectively put Florida's death penalty on
hold. Scott last month rescheduled Asay's execution for Aug. 24.
Early this year, the Department of Corrections adopted the new
three-drug process, known as a “protocol,” that called for using
etomidate as the critical first drug to sedate prisoners before
injecting them with a paralytic and then a drug used to stop
prisoners' hearts.
Along with the lethal-injection issue, Asay's lawyers raised a
series of other issues in seeking to halt the Aug. 24 execution,
including that actions taken by Attorney General Pam Bondi's
office in the case had violated Asay's due-process rights. But
the Supreme Court majority flatly rejected the arguments.
Source:
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Talk about the "perfect time" for a white supremacist to go to
hell this execution would certainly be that. All this race
relation crap is ALL caused by the useless lying democraP party.
This 'conservative non-RINO Republican,' spits in every democrat
eye in America this fine Tuesday morning... ;D ;D
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Re: ~ Mark Asay, 24Aug17, (FL) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: August 24, 2017, 5:52 pm
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Florida executes Jacksonville killer using new drug--
Mark Asay first inmate executed in Florida in 19 months
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Florida's death penalty hiatus ended Thursday, when the state
executed Jacksonville killer Mark James Asay, the first Death
Row prisoner put to death in more than 19 months.
He was executed with an anesthetic never used before in a U.S.
lethal injection.
Authorities said Asay, 53, the first white man executed in
Florida for killing a black man, was pronounced dead at 6:22
p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison in Starke. His death
followed a three-drug injection that began with the anesthetic,
etomidate.
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