Convicted Sex Offender Arrested After Multiple Deportations: An illegal immigrant from Mexico with multiple state and federal convictions was arrested in Utah by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for failing to register as a sex offender and for re-entering the U.S. illegally. Fox News Latino reports that 37-year-old Sergio Amador-Olive has two state sexual assault convictions and two federal immigration convictions dating back to 2003. He faced deportation in 2003, 2010 and 2014, but continued entering the country illegally. An ICE press release states that Amador-Olive's case will be presented to the U.S. Attorney General's Office for federal prosecution.
Daytona Sword Killer Gets Death for 3rd Time: A jury voted 11 to 1 Tuesday to recommend the death penalty for the third time for a man who used a sword to hack and slice another man to death in Daytona Beach, Florida, over two decades ago. Frank Fernandez of the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that 52-year-old James Guzman was found guilty last week at his third death penalty trial for the 1991 killing of 48-year-old businessman David Colvin. The first two convictions were overturned on appeal. At the latest trial, the jury unanimously agreed on four aggravating factors presented by the prosecution, including that Guzman killed Colvin during a robbery, that he killed to eliminate a witness, that it was an especially heinous killing and that he had murdered before. Guzman had served just nine years of a 30-year sentence for the 1982 shooting death of a Miami woman. He was released from prison four months before he killed Colvin. Guzman's case is the first in the 7th Circuit in which the jury recommended death since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Florida's death penalty process in January, ruling that judges had too much power in death penalty decisions.
Execution Date Set for TX Man: A murderer inmate on death row for fatally shooting a young woman in southwest Texas 15 years ago is set to die by lethal injection on August 10. The AP reports that 33-year-old Ramiro Gonzalez murdered 18-year-old Bridget Townsend in January 2001, but her remains weren't found until two years later when Gonzalez disclosed their location to authorities after receiving two life terms for the abduction and rape of another woman. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case last December.
AL Man Found Competent for Execution: One of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates has had his request to suspend his May 12 execution denied by a state circuit court judge. Kelsey Stein of AL reports that Vernon Madison has been on death row for 31 years for the 1985 slaying of Officer Julius Schulte, who was responding to a domestic disturbance call. Madison's attorneys argued at a competency hearing last month that several strokes had caused such a mental decline that he was no longer competent to be executed, but Mobile County Circuit Judge Robert Smith disagreed, issuing a ruling Friday that attorneys had not proven their argument and the execution can move forward.
Daytona Sword Killer Gets Death for 3rd Time: A jury voted 11 to 1 Tuesday to recommend the death penalty for the third time for a man who used a sword to hack and slice another man to death in Daytona Beach, Florida, over two decades ago. Frank Fernandez of the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that 52-year-old James Guzman was found guilty last week at his third death penalty trial for the 1991 killing of 48-year-old businessman David Colvin. The first two convictions were overturned on appeal. At the latest trial, the jury unanimously agreed on four aggravating factors presented by the prosecution, including that Guzman killed Colvin during a robbery, that he killed to eliminate a witness, that it was an especially heinous killing and that he had murdered before. Guzman had served just nine years of a 30-year sentence for the 1982 shooting death of a Miami woman. He was released from prison four months before he killed Colvin. Guzman's case is the first in the 7th Circuit in which the jury recommended death since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Florida's death penalty process in January, ruling that judges had too much power in death penalty decisions.
Execution Date Set for TX Man: A murderer inmate on death row for fatally shooting a young woman in southwest Texas 15 years ago is set to die by lethal injection on August 10. The AP reports that 33-year-old Ramiro Gonzalez murdered 18-year-old Bridget Townsend in January 2001, but her remains weren't found until two years later when Gonzalez disclosed their location to authorities after receiving two life terms for the abduction and rape of another woman. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case last December.
AL Man Found Competent for Execution: One of Alabama's longest-serving death row inmates has had his request to suspend his May 12 execution denied by a state circuit court judge. Kelsey Stein of AL reports that Vernon Madison has been on death row for 31 years for the 1985 slaying of Officer Julius Schulte, who was responding to a domestic disturbance call. Madison's attorneys argued at a competency hearing last month that several strokes had caused such a mental decline that he was no longer competent to be executed, but Mobile County Circuit Judge Robert Smith disagreed, issuing a ruling Friday that attorneys had not proven their argument and the execution can move forward.
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