Waterhouse Execution: Expert Says Florida Gov.'s Decision is 'Secretive'
A report from CBS Miami describes Florida Governor's execution selection process as 'incredibly secretive.'
Three days before former Greenport resident and convicted murderer Robert Waterhouse is scheduled to die by lethal injection at a Florida prison, CBS Miami published a report saying that Florida Gov. Rick Scott would not talk in detail about the process that led him to pick Waterhouse over other death row inmates whose appeals have run their course.
The report includes interviews with a man who handled death row appeals for years in Florida, who said that the governor's execution selection process is "incredibly secretive." Another expert told CBS that Florida governors have rarely been forthcoming as to why they pick one inmate over others for execution.
Waterhouse, 65, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Feb. 15 at 6 p.m. Scott signed the order of execution — his first of the year — on Jan. 4. He 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.
Waterhouse was denied a stay of execution by the Florida Supreme Court this past Wednesday and is now taking his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a report from the Miami Herald.
William Swiskey sr
2:11 pm on Monday, February 13, 2012
Give this a break.
Boo
6:16 am on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Good riddance
Mark Elliott
9:14 am on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Any government process that unnecessarily takes place in secret and
without a written record should send up a red flag. The details of how a
prisoner is chosen to be killed should not be kept from the citizens
and taxpayers of Florida who bear the responsibility for the killing.
Tanja Blume
8:46 pm on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
www.look-arch.de
Scott reappointed BOTH!
Mark, YOU KNEW about the DFS Report!
And so did everybody in the "community".
And YOU ALL did exactly NOTHING to stop it! Opposite is the case.
Fake applications were greatly appreciated!
Stop whining and complaining about transparency.
YOU HAD TRANSPARENCY and did not care ONE BIT!
Now you own the executions.
Mikell McSwain
2:21 pm on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
I don't buy the "innocence plea" DNA most probably would not clear him. This crime was the same as his first crimeand the cahnces are very good that if he were let out today he would rape and kill another woman. I am not a dingy bleeding heart. I fundementally don't believe in killing but I do not deny that this guys is a bad guy and earned his place. It is simply that killing is wrong not who when or why just is. Every governor has had their own way of selection it does not really matter since the appeals have run out, it is him or the next guy. Maybe the Governor thinks we have supported this guy long enough, that would make sense.