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Florida child killer, 55, dies in prison while awaiting resentencing for the 2004 kidnapping, rape, and murder of an 11-year-old girl
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - Convicted killer and rapist Joseph Smith, 55, died in prison on Monday
- He was being held at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida which has not released his cause of death
- Smith, then 39, was convicted in 2006 of kidnapping, rape and murder
- Carlie Brucia, 11, was abducted on February 1, 2004 and found four days later
- Smith was caught on surveillance camera snatching Brucia that day
- A jury voted 10-2 to sentence Smith to the death in March 2016 for these crimes
- He was awaiting a resentencing hearing after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that juries must be unanimous in death penalty cases
- Brucia's father, Joseph, told FOX 13 'I feel wonderful' when asked about hearing of Smith's death 17 years after his daughters horrific death
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-27 |
