The obnoxiously liberal Orlando Sentinel, certainly one of Florida’s largest newspapers, tried smear-by-association towards Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis with an 1,800-word front-page hit job Friday. The headline was unbelievable in its tone of ethical blackmail and disinformation:
Ron DeSantis is a veteran. So are 7 inmates he is sending to execution.
It’s the brutal murders the inmates dedicated, a number of the victims younger youngsters, that’s sending them to execution, not the governor, regardless of how a lot the Sentinel loathes him. This comes from the identical left-wing paper that revealed an op-ed on the conflict in Gaza that mangled the reality about Hamas and their “alleged violence towards civilians.”
The byline on this story got here from Oishika Neogi of The Warfare Horse, a liberal navy information website, and was listed as a “Particular to the Orlando Sentinel,” which means the Sentinel bypassed their very own journalists to plaster this hit on its entrance web page — a narrative that doesn’t seem on the Sentinel’s web site.
Downplayed or unnoticed of the story – the terrible particulars of why these convicted killers have been being executed.
The caravan of executions began with a U.S. Military veteran in March.
It continued in Could with a former Military Ranger who served within the Gulf Warfare, then an Air Drive veteran in July, a former Nationwide Guard member in August, and a Navy veteran in October.
On Thursday, a former Marine turned the most recent casualty, and subsequent week, one more Military veteran is scheduled to die in what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has known as the “most veteran-friendly state within the nation.”
He is the one who signed all seven of their demise warrants. The governor wielding the executioner’s pen is a Navy veteran himself.
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Whereas veterans signify an estimated 12% of Florida’s 256 demise row inmates, they account for practically 40% of the 18 demise warrants that the governor has signed this yr.
DeSantis, a former JAG officer who served as a authorized adviser to SEAL Staff One in Iraq, has ignored the pleas of some veteran advocates and refused to deal with the disproportionate ratio of former service members he’s sending to the Florida State Jail’s execution chamber.
The story was based mostly on a report from the Dying Penalty Data Heart, which warned of a “battlefield-to-prison” pipeline.
Solely briefly are the precise heinous crimes of those supposed victims of DeSantis aired out.
Victims’ advocates argue that Hutchinson’s horrific crimes converse for themselves: He was convicted for the homicide of his girlfriend and her three youngsters, after busting down the entrance door of their north Florida house on Sept. 11, 1998, and discovering them in the master suite. He shot mother Renee Flaherty and her children, seven-year-old Amanda and four-year-old Logan, all within the head. Then he turned the gun on nine-year-old Geoffrey.
Neogi wailed, “the governor has failed to deal with why so lots of these inmates this yr are veterans.”
Her opposite proof was larded with unrelated political gripes.
In 1982, Bates was an lively member of the Nationwide Guard when he was charged within the brutal homicide of Janet Renee White. Prosecutors say he kidnapped White from her workplace, stole her diamond ring, tried to rape her, and stabbed her to demise.
The trial of Bates, who was Black, opened with a prayer from the sufferer’s minister, who requested for the choose and the all-white jury to have “knowledge.” With no point out of Bates’ navy background, he was sentenced to demise inside an hour of deliberations.
However the Florida Supreme Courtroom threw out his unique demise penalty and ordered the trial courtroom to rethink his sentence. This time, lawyer Tom Dunn, a U.S. Military veteran, represented Bates with one intention: to influence the jury that Bates was not the “worst of the worst,” and that life in jail, not demise, was applicable.
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….Bates was amongst 1000’s of Nationwide Guard members despatched into Miami after an all-white jury acquitted 4 white law enforcement officials within the beating of Arthur McDuffie, a Black Marine Corps veteran, left in a coma after a visitors cease in December 1979….
Gov. DeSantis took to X to answer a associated story filed by Axios Tampa Bay, which used the identical report from the Dying Penalty Data Heart.
Why do legacy media shops strive so laborious to make mass murders sympathetic? How about exhibiting sympathy for the girl and three younger youngsters that this “veteran” brutally killed?
