Victim's Family Calls Stay of Executions Cruel
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A condemned Florida man scheduled to be executed Thursday remained on Death Row after the U.S. Supreme court ordered a postponement. The high court intervened just hours before Mark Schwab would have been put to death for murdering 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez. Police said Schwab kidnapped, raped and strangled Junny in 1991. The blocked execution prompted Junny's family to speak out about their wait for justice. "They may think it's cruel and unjust to him, but what they did to us today is just as cruel and unjust," said Junny's mother, Vickie Rios-Martinez.
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Posted by Editor at November 16, 2007 01:29 PM