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2021-07-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-
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 00:32|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 At least you can sill trust criminals, right?
Posted by Dron66046 2021-07-27 01:21||   2021-07-27 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 That saved the taxpayers a bundle.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-07-27 08:49||   2021-07-27 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 
"which has not released his cause of death"

Code words for internally handled.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-07-27 09:02||   2021-07-27 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Hopefully an acetylene torch has been ID'd as the murder weapon.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-27 09:46||   2021-07-27 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 So the effect of the Florida Supreme Court ruling is just to outsource the death penalty to the private sector?
Posted by Tom 2021-07-27 09:51||   2021-07-27 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 has not released his cause of death

Meaning his roommate has not yet been released early "for good behavior"
Posted by Mercutio 2021-07-27 10:21||   2021-07-27 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Handled by a DOC (Descent Ordinary Criminal)
Posted by Secret Master 2021-07-27 12:26||   2021-07-27 12:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Used to be the 'Way of the World' of how child molesters were accommodated, Mr. Master
Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-07-27 14:20||   2021-07-27 14:20|| Front Page Top

#9 ^Resisting arrest?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-27 14:21||   2021-07-27 14:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Like a 'Roach Motel'.
They check in, but they don't check out.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-07-27 17:03||   2021-07-27 17:03|| Front Page Top

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