In Florida, stipulations for making use of the death penalty in prison circumstances embrace these crimes thought-about significantly merciless, horrific, premeditated and/or unsympathetically carried out.
Currently, there are three women sitting on Florida’s death row for crimes perpetrated in simply such a fashion.
Tina Lasonya Brown
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On March 24, 2010, Tina Brown, together with a neighbor, Heather Lee, and Brown’s 16-year-old daughter Britnee Miller, lured one other neighbor, Audreanna Zimmerman, to her residence. All lived in a cellular residence park in Escambia County, Florida.
Zimmerman was solely 19 years outdated whereas Brown was 43.
Once there, Brown repeatedly used a taser to disable Zimmerman. While screaming and crying for assist, Zimmerman was crushed whereas Lee stuffed a sock into her mouth. The three proceeded to power the 19-year-old into the trunk of Brown’s automobile.
Zimmerman was pushed to a wooded space close by, the place the three continued to beat her with a crowbar and use the taser on her. At one level, Brown poured gasoline over the lady and set her on hearth.
Brown, according to Lee, “exuberantly jumped up and down and screamed, “Burn, bitch! Burn!”.”
Perhaps the most horrific half in an already horrific crime, Zimmerman was left to endure together with her accidents whereas the three drove away. The solely concern Miller had upon leaving is that she’d left her sneakers and the taser behind.
Zimmerman would stay with a busted jaw and burns over 90% of her physique for an additional 16 days earlier than passing away.
Later, as a part of a plea discount, Lee would testify towards Brown and obtained a sentence of 25 years in jail. Brown’s daughter, Britnee Miller, pled responsible, and since she was a minor at the time, was spared the death penalty and handed down a life sentence.
Brown was sentenced to death and this sentence has been upheld in subsequent appeals.
Tiffany Ann Cole
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Is there something extra horrific and merciless than burying somebody alive? Yes, burying two individuals alive.
By all accounts, James and Carol Sumner had executed nicely in life. Far from being stingy with their wealth although, they strove to assist others who weren’t so lucky.
Such was the case with Tiffany Cole. All had beforehand been neighbors in South Carolina. After the couple relocated to Florida, in 2005 Cole organized to buy a automobile from the Sumners and the couple warmly opened their residence for her to stick with them. They additionally agreed to letting Cole make month-to-month funds on the automobile, since she could not afford to purchase it outright.
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It was solely a short while after later that Cole reportedly held a flashlight whereas her boyfriend Michael James Jackson, together with co-conspirators Alan Wade and Bruce Kent Nixon, Jr., dug graves for the couple, who they quickly deliberate to abduct and homicide.
The motivation was theft. But why bury them alive?
In her protection, Cole maintained that she was below the management of her boyfriend, Michael Jackson. This proved suspect although, contemplating they each had been seen celebrating afterward in a rented limousine whereas ingesting champagne. All paid for with cash robbed from the Sumners.
While Cole had been dealing with two separate death sentences for every sufferer, this sentence is currently in limbo. In 2017, the Florida Supreme Court dominated that death penalty circumstances will need to have a unanimous advice from juries.
A choice that not too long ago grew to become a think about the sentencing of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, who was additionally spared the death penalty in a 9-3 break up.
Since Cole’s sentence was additionally delivered with a 9-3 break up, when she faces resentencing in 2023, her sentence may very nicely be commuted to life in jail.
Margaret Ann Allen
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No one likes to have something stolen from them. Still, the proper factor to do is to name the authorities and allow them to take care of it.
The mistaken factor to do is what Margaret Allen opted for when her purse with $2,000 was stolen in 2005. Deciding it was her housekeeper, Wenda Wright, who had stolen her purse, she proceeded to beat the girl.
Enlisting the assist of her nephew, Quinton Allen, to assist subdue and bind Wright, his aunt proceeded to pour bleach, ammonia and nail polish remover over the girl’s face and down her throat.
Her nephew stated in court docket that Wright “was gagging on the chemicals, crying and begging for her life.”
Afterward, Allen, alongside together with her nephew and her roommate, James Martin, transported Wright to a distant space and buried her in a shallow grave.
Allen was sentenced to death on May nineteenth, 2011.
Conclusion
Most women sentenced to death in Florida have succeeded in having their sentences diminished to life in jail, as in the case of Emilia Carr, Ana Maria Cardona and lots of others.
In the state’s historical past, solely two women have ever been executed, Judias Goodyear Buenoano and Aileen Wuornos.
What do you consider Florida’s women on death row?
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