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| Comment Share on email Share on twitter Follow This Article Execution set for killer of guard, Miami couple |
| By staugustine.com |
| Published: 01/07/2014 |
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A man convicted of abducting and killing a Miami couple and later stabbing a prison guard to death is set to be executed after nearly four decades on Florida’s death row. Askari Abdullah Muhammad, previously known as Thomas Knight, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday at Florida State Prison in Starke barring a last-minute, successful appeal. Gov. Rick Scott signed the death warrant after the Florida Supreme Court in December rejected Muhammad’s challenge to chemicals used in the state’s execution procedure. Muhammad, 62, was first condemned to die for the 1974 killings of Sydney and Lillian Gans. Then known as Knight, he had worked for Gans at a paper bag company before abducting him in the business’ parking lot with a rifle. He ordered Gans to drive home to pick up his wife and then go to a bank to withdraw $50,000. Read More. |
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