Execution rescheduled to accommodate Pam Bondi political event
News Service of Florida:
A "hometown campaign kickoff" at a waterfront home in Tampa for Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled for the same night that Gov. Rick Scott had once set as the execution date for Death Row inmate Marshall Lee Gore. The execution was moved to a later date at Bondi's request.
A spokeswoman for Bondi said Friday that the Sept. 10 fundraiser had been planned before the execution date was set. Scott had scheduled two earlier execution dates for Gore this summer, but both were scuttled because of legal battles about Gore's sanity. Gore was convicted of killing two women in 1988 in Miami-Dade and Columbia counties.
The Tuesday night reception for Bondi ... in Tampa is set for 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. On Aug. 13, Scott had scheduled Gore's execution for the same night. But on Aug. 19, Scott advised Florida State Prison Warden John Palmer that he was moving the execution from 6 p.m. Sept. 10 to 6 p.m. Oct. 1 "at the request of the Attorney General." On Aug. 20, Molly McFarland, the deputy press secretary for the Attorney General's office, said the Sept. 10 date conflicted with a previously-scheduled event, without noting the event.
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/execution-rescheduled-to-accommodate-pam-bondi-political-event/2140576
= new reply since forum marked as read
