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| Rabbis call for delaying execution today |
| By gainesville.com |
| Published: 02/16/2010 |
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Jewish leaders are calling for an execution scheduled for today to be delayed, while the mother of the victim says it is long overdue. Martin Grossman was 19 years old when he shot to death wildlife officer Margaret "Peggy" Park in Pinellas County in December 1984. More than 110 rabbis have signed a letter to Gov. Charlie Crist asking for a 60-day stay of execution for a clemency hearing, arguing that Grossman did not premeditate the crime and has been a model prisoner. "This should not have been a death penalty case," said Rabbi Menachem Katz of Miami-Dade County, who has been a spiritual adviser to the Jewish inmate in prison. Park was 26, just three years out of college, when she found Grossman with a stolen handgun in the woods. Grossman, who was on probation, pleaded with her to let him go because he would be returned to prison. After she refused, the much larger Grossman beat her with her flashlight before taking her gun and shooting her in the back of the head. Read More. |
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