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| Florida Gov. Lifts Stay of Execution |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/06/2003 |
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Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday lifted the stay of execution he had granted an inmate in December to allow DNA testing of evidence. Bush said the tests 'failed to provide any new evidence.' The state then set a Feb. 26 execution date for Amos King, convicted of raping and murdering Natalie Brady, 68, in her Tarpon Springs home in 1977. Bush granted the stay Dec. 2, about 90 minutes before King, 48, was to have been executed. A few hours earlier, Bush's death penalty attorney had met with New York attorney Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, a legal clinic that seeks DNA tests to clear people wrongly convicted of crimes. 'In an abundance of caution, I ordered additional testing of evidence in Amos King's case,' Bush said in a statement Wednesday. 'That testing has been completed and it failed to yield any new evidence.' Three pubic hairs and scrapings recovered from under Brady's fingernails were too degraded to yield any results, said David Menschel, a staff attorney with the Innocence Project. Evidence that might still have been testable was destroyed or lost by the state years ago, according to the group, which called the case of Amos King 'extremely troubling.' One of King's attorneys, Peter Cannon of Tampa, said he will pursue 'all available options' to stop the execution. |
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