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| Long-Serving inmate on Death Row loses appeal |
| By South Florida Sun Sentinel |
| Published: 08/25/2003 |
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One of the longest-serving residents of Florida's Death Row is a step closer to execution, after a ruling Thursday by the state Supreme Court. Thomas Knight, 52, was sentenced to death for the 1974 kidnapping and slaying of Sidney and Lillian Gans of Miami Beach. While on Death Row he changed his name to Askari Abdullah Muhammed and, in 1980, fatally stabbed prison officer Richard Burke. Representing himself, Muhammad was convicted of murdering Burke and again sentenced to death. He then convinced the trial judge that the state had failed to turn over some material that possibly could have helped his case. The trial judge granted a re-sentencing. On Thursday the Florida Supreme Court disagreed and reinstated the death sentence. Even if Muhammad had the statements, the justices concluded, the trial still would have resulted in conviction. |
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