In Latest Complication, Judge Craig Recuses Himself From David Snelgrove...
The Supreme Court has ordered a re-sentencing in the case of David Snelgrove, sentenced to die 15 years ago in the double-murders in Palm Coast of an elderly couple. The post In Latest Complication,...
View ArticleDeath Sentence Commuted to Life For William Gregory, Double-Murderer of...
William Gregory was on Death Row for the 2007 murders of his ex-girlfriend Skyler Dawn Meekings, 17, and her boyfriend of two months, Daniel Arthur Dyer, 22, at a house on John Anderson Highway. The...
View ArticleCourt Orders Re-Hearing in Death Penalty Case Over Juror Calling Gays ‘Depraved’
Justices ordered a new sentencing hearing for inmate Eric Kurt Patrick because the jury split 7-5 in recommending the death penalty to a judge, and because a juror was prejudiced against Patrick. The...
View ArticleScott Signs Death Warrant, His 27th, For 1992 Murderer Jose Antonio Jimenez
Jose Antonio Jimenez was convicted in the October 1992 killing of 63-year-old Phyllis Minas, whose neighbors heard her shout, “Oh God! Oh my God!” during the attack. The post Scott Signs Death Warrant,...
View ArticleAfter Granting Stay, Supreme Court Clears Way for Execution of Murderer Jose...
Jimenez had cited a February execution of Death Row inmate Eric Branch, who reportedly screamed and made body movements as he was being executed, among reasons not to proceed. The post After Granting...
View ArticleJames Colley Jr. Sentenced to Death in Murders of Ex-Wife Amanda Colley and...
James Terry Colley Jr., 38, of St. Augustine, murdered his estranged wife Amanda Colley and her friend Lindy Dobbins in 2015 in St. Augustine after stalking and harassing Amanda for weeks. The post...
View ArticleWith Conservatives In Control of Supreme Court, A 2016 Decision Reducing...
The court has begun the process of reconsidering whether changes to Florida’s death penalty-sentencing system should continue being applied retroactively to cases dating to 2002. The post With...
View ArticleAttorney General Moody To Supreme Court on Death Row Inmates: Let ‘Em Die
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office is urging the Florida Supreme Court to reverse course on decisions that allowed dozens of convicted murderers to have their death sentences reconsidered. The post...
View ArticleDeSantis Signs Death Warrant of Homophobic Serial Killer Gary Bowles
Gary Bowles murdered six people in 1994. He is serving life sentences in the murders of John Roberts in Daytona Beach and Albert Morris in Nassau County, and is being killed for the murder of Walter...
View ArticleDeath Penalty: Now It’s Florida’s Conservative Supreme Court’s Turn To Be...
Reversing the state’s retroactive consideration of certain death-penalty cases would amount to “the most egregious judicial activism in the history of Florida,” a lawyer for a Death Row inmate argued...
View ArticleOn and Off Death Row for 17 Years, Palm Coast Double-Murderer David Snelgrove...
David Snelgrove, who murdered two elderly people who'd cared for him in Palm Coast in 2000, argued through his lawyers that he was mentally disabled and so not eligible for the death penalty. A judge...
View Article20 Years After Double Murder in Palm Coast, David Snelgrove Faces Death...
David Snelgrove murdered Glyn and Vivian Fowler in Palm Coast in 2000, but is in yet another penalty phase of his trial this week because two previous recommendations for death were not unanimous. The...
View ArticleFor Jury in Double-Murderer Case, Snelgrove’s Mental Disability Is a Gray...
David Snelgrove's double-murder of an elderly couple in palm Coast 20 years ago is not in dispute, but whether he should be put to death for it is. A jury will have to contend with the brutality of the...
View ArticleVideo and Pictures Revive Vivid Reactions to Double-Murder in Snelgrove’s...
To reservations from the defense, the jury watched video and saw pictures of the crime scene following the murders of Glyn and Vivian Fowler in Palm Coast 20 years ago, part of a penalty phase--the...
View ArticleGrim Day for Snelgrove’s Defense as Prosecution Makes Largely Unanswered Case...
A jury tasked with deciding whether to recommend death for David Snelgrove saw a psychologist for the defense unable to convincingly show that Snelgrove is a simple-minded individual who could not...
View ArticleAfter Dueling Witnesses and Sniping Lawyers, Jury Must Now Decide Whether to...
David Snelgrove's double-murder of Glyn and Vivian Fowler in Palm Coast 20 years ago comes down, in this third sentencing trial in two decades, to a jury willing to believe he was a calculated killer...
View ArticleLife in Prison Without Parole, Not Death, For David Snelgrove as 20-Year...
The seven-day re-trial over the penalty for the 2000 murders in Palm Coast's B-Section was necessary because two previous verdicts were ruled unconstitutional. Today's verdict means that years, maybe...
View ArticleDeath Row’s Cornelius Baker a No-Show at His Own Pre-Trial Ahead of Potential...
Lawyers and the judge in the re-sentencing case of convicted murderer Cornelius Baker focused on a lengthy questionnaire about the death penalty the defense planned to submit to potential jurors. The...
View ArticleFor Seven Days, Flagler Sees Florida’s Broken Death Penalty Machinery in Action
Though David Snelgrove was finally sentenced to life in prison rather than death this week, his trial shows how the 20-year ordeal in court could have been avoided with the same result two decades ago,...
View ArticleWrongfully Convicted, He Was on Florida’s Death Row for 42 Years. He’s...
Clifford Williams, now 77, gives God the credit for his release from prison, after state prosecutors found he and his nephew, Hubert Nathan Myers, were wrongly convicted in the 1976 Jacksonville murder...
View ArticleSupreme Court Reverses Unanimous-Jury Requirement in Death Penalty, Raising...
The Florida Supreme Court said unanimous jury recommendations are not necessary before death sentences can be imposed, backing away from a 2016 decision. The ruling puts in question the case of...
View ArticleProsecution Asks for Temporary Halt in Cornelius Baker Death Penalty...
The prosecution is arguing that a Supreme Court decision last week may make the re-sentencing of convicted murderer Cornelius Baker, scheduled to start in four weeks in Bunnell, is unnecessary. The...
View ArticleThis Time Death Row Inmate Cornelius Baker Shows Up, Only To Learn His Chance...
Death row inmate Cornelius Baker's fate is undetermined as the judge, the defense and the prosecution are all awaiting direction from other courts as to whether to re-try Baker in a sentencing phase or...
View ArticleAttorneys Urge Florida Supreme Court to Rethink Decision Making Unanimous...
Pointing to “evolving standards of decency,” attorneys for a Death Row inmate have asked the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider a major ruling that said unanimous jury recommendations are not...
View ArticleSupreme Court Refuses to Reinstate Death Sentences in Decision That Could...
The decisions could apply to about 100 inmates, possibly including David Snelgrove of Palm Coast, who was removed from death row in January after his lawyer successfully argued for life without parole,...
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