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| Man Executed for Florida Family Killings |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/16/2003 |
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A man convicted of killing four members of a family and an unborn child was executed by injection early Friday after a 13-hour delay while his mental competency was questioned. The execution of Newton Carlton Slawson, 48, came 14 years after the killings, the result of a botched drug deal. He made no final statement. Slawson was convicted in the April 11, 1989, shooting deaths of his neighbors Peggy Wood, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant; her husband, Gerald; and their children, 4-year-old Jennifer and 3-year-old Glendon. Slawson also sliced Peggy Wood's body with a knife and pulled out her male fetus, which had two gunshot wounds and multiple cuts, court records show. Just an hour before Slawson's scheduled execution Thursday, Gov. Jeb Bush issued a temporary stay so that three psychiatrists could examine whether Slawson was competent to be executed. They reported that they found Slawson aware of what the death sentence meant. The standard for competency is understanding that execution will result in death and the reason the sentence is being imposed. Bush lifted the stay early Friday morning, prison spokesman Sterling Ivey said. Police said the 1989 slayings occurred after Gerald Wood, 23, offered to sell Slawson crack cocaine and Peggy Wood, 21, said she feared he might be a police officer. What happened next is unclear, but Slawson got his gun and opened fire on the family. After the attack, Peggy Wood crawled down the stairs of their garage apartment, across a back yard to her mother's home and, before dying, told her, 'Newton did it.' Defense attorneys argued in his trial that Gerald Wood slipped crack cocaine into Slawson's beer, sending an unstable man into a killing rage. Lawyers also argued that Slawson was mentally ill. Slawson dropped his appeals in 2001. At a court hearing in Tampa last month, he told Circuit Judge Rex Barbas he wanted to be executed. 'Judge, let's just end this, please,' he said. |
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