Man Convicted of 1966 Greenport Murder to Be Executed in Florida
Florida Governor signs death warrant for Robert Waterhouse, 44 years after gruesome Greenport murder.
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Former North Fork resident Robert Waterhouse, who has spent decades on death row at Florida State Prison, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Feb. 15 at 6 p.m., according to reports on sunshineslate.com and westorlandonews.com.
Florida governor Rick Scott signed the order of execution — his first of the year — on Wednesday.
Waterhouse, 65, was sentenced to life in 1967 for the 1966 rape-murder of 77-year-old Greenport resident Ella Carter. While out on lifetime parole in 1980, he raped and killed Deborah Kammerer in St. Petersburg, Fla., and was convicted of first-degree murder, according to the reports.
Waterhouse had been sentenced to death for the 1980 conviction, but a 1985 stay of execution was issued four days before his scheduled execution. A judge ordered that Waterhouse be resentenced in 1988 due to mitigating evidence that his rights were violated during sentencing for the 1967 conviction. Waterhouse was sentenced to death again in 1990 by a unanimous jury vote.
Read more on the Waterhouse execution order on sunshineslate.com and on westorlandonews.com.
Editor’s note: The attached PDF legal documents describing both murder cases are explicit.
Dan
2:26 pm on Sunday, January 8, 2012
It's about time. If they had the sense to deal with him properly after the first crime the second woman would have been spared the horror. For what he did to that poor lady in Greenport he should NEVER have seen the light of day again. Thankfully they have better judgment in Florida's criminal justice system. Good-bye and good-riddance.
Linda Cope
7:33 pm on Saturday, February 11, 2012
I am Debbie Kammerer's sister. This guy tore our family apart and we all said good riddance a long time agoRobert Waterhouse deserved to die when he brutally took my sister's life. What a monster he is.
FAMILY MEMBER
12:21 pm on Friday, February 17, 2012
AMEN AUNT LINDA!!!! HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE DID TO HER CHILDREN MOST OF ALL!!!!! SICK MAN!!!!! AND DAN I AGREE TOTALLY!!! THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT HIM LOCKED UP AND WE'D STILL HAVE OUR BELOVED FAMILY MEMBER!!!!