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| Four death row inmates lose appeals |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/29/2004 |
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Four Florida death row inmates lost appeals last Wednesday, including a North Carolina prison escapee who killed a north Florida woman abducted from a grocery store parking lot and a former mental patient who killed and mutilated a high school senior in the Panhandle. The Florida Supreme Court also rejected the appeal of a death row inmate who claimed he was high on LSD when he raped and killed a Panama City woman in her home, and it refused to order DNA testing for a death row inmate condemned for the murder of a Florida State University student who was camping in Ocala National Forest with his sister. But in a fifth capital case Thursday, the high court agreed with a trial judge that a man who fatally stabbed his fiance in central Florida deserved a new sentencing hearing. Donn Duncan, 59, was condemned for the 1990 murder of Deborah Bauer in the Orange County home they shared. A trial judge ruled that Duncan deserved a new penalty hearing because mental health issues that might have resulted in a life sentence were not presented at the first penalty hearing. Six justices fully concurred in that unsigned ruling; Justice Harry Lee Anstead partially concurred. |
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