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David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« on: February 29, 2012, 04:50:25 AM »
Execution order signed for Indian River County serial killer

7:21 a.m. EST, February 29, 2012
By Melissa E. Holsman,TCPalm.com


David Alan Gore to be executed mid-April


INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Governor Rick Scott on Tuesday signed a death warrant for David Alan Gore, convicted in the first-degree murder of Lynn Elliott in July 1983.



Gore was convicted of killing six women for which he received five life prison terms and a sentence of death in the Elliott slaying.

After spending more than 28 years on death row, Gore, 58, is scheduled to be executed at Florida State Prison on April 12, at 6 p.m., according to a letter Gov. Scott sent Tuesday to Warden Steven Singer.

In his letter to Singer, Scott designated that Gore's execution should be carried out between noon Thursday, April 12, through noon on Thursday, April 19.

Gore is on death row at the Union Correctional Facility in Raiford.

State Attorney Bruce Colton, who in 1992 prosecuted Gore's second penalty phase trial in the Elliott murder, said the death warrant is past due.

"Obviously it's good news. I think the family of not only Lynn Elliott, but families of the other victims in this case, I think, deserve to finally have this come to an end," Colton said Tuesday. "I think it's clear that Gore relished all the publicity that he received over the years; obviously the case was drawn out. We had the original trial and conviction and death penalty and then we had to retry the death penalty phase."

The jury at his 1984 murder trial voted 11-1 in recommending the death penalty, which was imposed by Circuit Judge L.B. Vocelle, court records show.

"I know in the second penalty phase the jury was unanimous in recommending death," Colton recalled. "This was not a case where there was any question of whether or not he was guilty. We always hear this on the death penalty appeals, that you have to be sure you have the right person and there's absolutely no doubt that the right person was gotten in this."

Gore confessed, Colton said, and lead authorities to the bodies of other murder victims.

"This one (the murder of Lynn Elliott) was eye witnessed in front of his own house by a young boy who was riding by on his bicycle," he recalled. "So Gore definitely is the right person, he deserves the death penalty and the families and the community of Indian River County have long awaited this to happen."

This is the third time Gore has been under a signed death warrant.

Gore's legal options should be exhausted, Colton said, because "every issue Gore could raise on appeal has already been litigated."

"But it never fails to happen that the attorneys who represent people in these cases find other issues that they bring up at the last minute," he said. "I'm sure there will be last minute attempts to get theU.S. Supreme Courtto issue a stay. I just don't see it happening in this case. I think they'll attempt to, but I just don't see them being successful in getting any more stays in this case."

In July 1983, Gore and his cousin, Fred Waterfield, picked up Elliott, 17, and Regan Martin, 14, as the two Vero Beach girls were hitchhiking to Wabasso Beach.

Gore, 29 at the time, was a former auxiliary deputy with the Indian River County Sheriffs Office on probation for armed trespassing. He and Waterfield, 30 at the time, also of Vero Beach, handcuffed Elliott and Martin and drove them to Gore's parents' house on Fifth Street Southwest on the outskirts of Vero Beach where they raped the girls.

Elliott was shot as she tried to escape.

A 15-year-old Vero Beach boy riding past the scene on his bicycle later testified he saw Gore chase down and shoot Elliott twice in the head. The boy made an anonymous 911 call to authorities, leading to Martin's rescue by police and the end to a reign of terror by the Killing Cousins that included the rape of seven women and murder of six.

In 1984, a Pinellas County jury found Gore guilty of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and three counts of sexual battery in connection with Elliott's death and the abduction of Elliott and Martin.


Vero Beach attorney Robert Stone, who was the area's State Attorney from 1972 to 1986, prosecuted Gore in the Elliott murder.

He still can't shake the image of seeing dark rope marks on Elliott's wrists.

"It was unbelievable; the suffering she must have gone through," Stone recalled. "I'll never forget seeing those ever."

Gore's trial was moved toSt. Petersburgfrom Vero Beach in 1984.

"I remember going to St. Petersburg for the case and I stopped by (Lynn Elliott's) grave on the way over," he said. "I know a lot of people probably think this is silly, but I did stop by her grave and told her I was going to get justice for her. I felt moved to do it.

"I told her 'I'm going to go over there and get justice for you,' and we did," added Stone. "And finally after 28 years, it's about time."

Through interviews with Gore and Waterfield, and a comprehensive investigation authorities also uncovered evidence that Gore had killed six women between February 1981 and July 1983. Most were raped, some were tortured and some were dismembered and buried in hidden graves in citrus groves west of Vero Beach.

The discoveries led to Gore being convicted of murdering Barbara Ann Byer, Angelica LaVallee, Judy Kaye Daley, Hsiang Huang Ling and her daughter, Ying Hua Ling and sentenced to five consecutive life terms that were tacked on to his death sentence.

Waterfield, now 59, was convicted of manslaughter in Elliott's death and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was found guilty of first-degree murder in the cases of Byer and LaVallee, two of Gore's victims and is serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole at the Okeechobee Correctional Institution.

Stone recalled Gore's constant cold demeanor, and his eyes.

"He never expressed any emotion of any kind. We took him out to the citrus grove to show us the drums so we could dig them up ... and I remember looking in his eyes and they were like balls of fire, like red marbles," Stone said. "If the devil had eyes, those would be the kind of eyes they were because they were like a fiery red. I don't think he had any type of conscious at all, he couldn't have."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/tc-gore-death-warrant-20120229,0,4491029.story?page=2
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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2012, 12:44:35 PM »
Is it me - or is his head shaped like a light bulb?  ???  :o



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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2012, 12:47:08 PM »
Is it me - or is his head shaped like a light bulb?  ???  :o







Too bad Florida does not use 'ole Sparky anymore,we could find out for sure if his head would light up like alight bulb....... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2012, 12:59:18 PM »
Gov. Rick Scott: Signing David Gore’s death warrant in Vero Beach ‘right thing to do for the state’

A day after signing David Alan Gore’s death warrant, Gov. Rick Scott, in reflecting on the decision, said as governor, he had “a very solemn obligation to do this.”

Gore, 58, was sentenced to death in the July 1983 first-degree murder of Lynn Elliott. He also was convicted in the murders of five other women for which he received 5 life prison terms.

The death warrant Scott signed Tuesday designates Gore should be executed at 6 p.m. April 12.

“I spent a lot of time praying about this. This individual is a serial murderer,” Scott said Wednesday in Tallahassee. “The crimes he committed were heinous crimes against individuals. It’s the not the first thing I wanted to do every day when I ran for governor. But it’s the right thing to do for the state.”

Scott said he signed off on Gore’s death warrant after first hearing about Gore’s 1980s reign of terror in Indian River County during a January editorial board meeting with Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers.

In a letter to Florida State Prison Warden Steven Singer, Scott wrote Gore’s execution should be carried out between noon April 12, through noon April 19.

In signing Gore’s death warrant, Scott was operating under the 1992 sentence of death imposed by Circuit Judge Dan L. Vaughn, who presided over the 2nd sentencing phase Gore received in the Elliott case after a federal judge in U.S. District Court threw out his original death penalty.

Vaughn, who followed a jury’s unanimous recommendation that Gore be executed, noted in the nearly 20-year-old order that Elliott fought to save her own life before Gore shot her twice in the head outside his parents’ Vero Beach home, a murderous act witnessed by a teenage boy on a bicycle.

“This brutal homicide was ... consciousless, pitiless, unnecessarily torturous to the victim and with utter indifference to or enjoyment of the suffering of the victim,” Vaughn wrote Dec. 8, 1992. “The horror and terror experienced by Lynn Elliott and the torture and pain inflicted upon her prior to her death, clearly places this 1st-degree murder outside the norm of other 1st-degree murder cases.”

In July 1983, a 29-year-old Gore and his cousin Fred Waterfield, then 30, picked up Elliott, 17, and Regan Martin, 14, as the two Vero Beach girls were hitchhiking to Wabasso Beach.

Gore and Waterfield, dubbed the Killing Cousins, handcuffed Elliott and Martin and drove them to Gore’s parents house on Fifth Street Southwest on the outskirts of Vero Beach where they raped the girls.

Gore shot and killed Elliott as she tried to escape. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1984. Martin survived the ordeal and now lives in Georgia.

Waterfield is serving life in prison for his role in the killing.

Authorities eventually determined Gore killed 6 women between 1981 and 1983. Some victims were dismembered and buried in citrus groves west of Vero Beach.

With Gore now under a death warrant, his third since 1989, the Florida Supreme Court Tuesday issued an order expediting any legal proceedings that may occur as his execution nears. The high court ordered that any oral arguments that may be required be held at 9 a.m. April 4.

It’s unclear what legal steps Gore’s attorneys might undertake before April 12. His lawyers, Linda McDermott and John Abatecola, on Tuesday and Wednesday couldn’t be reached for comment.

Florida Department of Corrections Communications Director Ann Howard said Gore soon will be relocated from Union Correctional Institution to the nearby Florida State Prison, in Raiford, but she declined to elaborate.

“We don’t typically discuss when we are moving an inmate,” she said. “He will be relocated to Florida State Prison where the executions are done and that’s done by lethal injection.”

Howard said death row inmates under a death warrant may grant media interviews, in a group setting and he’s permitted to be interviewed by a specific member of the media of his choosing, with his written approval.

“We’ll ask him if he wants to do media interviews in the next few days; if he does, I’ll let the various media members know that he will make himself available and when,” Howard said. “But at this point, we don’t know what he’s going to do.”

For his last meal, Gore will have some discretion in planning his menu.

“What he can request is a meal within $40,” Howard said, “and can be cooked within the prison.”

source: TC Palm

I like the last meal deal as much as anyone...but wasting $40 on this pig rubs me the wrong way. >:(
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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2012, 03:33:54 PM »
OK here  is what I would love to see him ask for  King Salmon to be marinated in honey/soy sauce with garlic and herbs. Cooked on ceder. Halibut warped in Bacon. Green beans for a veggie. with shrimp salad on the side. Or maybe some Asparagus drizzled in (evoo) extra virgin olive oil wrapped in bacon and grilled. And a type of citris-ish dessert. Some thing fresh but not to sweet. I will seend it to him Ty soon as I or you lol we nail down a dessert.
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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2012, 07:03:42 PM »
“I spent a lot of time praying about this. This individual is a serial murderer,” Scott said Wednesday in Tallahassee. “The crimes he committed were heinous crimes against individuals. It’s the not the first thing I wanted to do every day when I ran for governor. But it’s the right thing to do for the state.”

Thank you!  

Here is my quote, if I was governor.  Reduced version: "It's the first thing I wanted to do as governer, and it's the right thing to do for the victims of these horrible crimes and I am here to defend my state from any current and future wrong-doings"  ;)

Again, Thank you Sir, you rock.  Props on Oba!  You got a few more over there we need to talk about, they too need to be get-gone.   :)

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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2012, 07:07:16 PM »
OK here  is what I would love to see him ask for  King Salmon to be marinated in honey/soy sauce with garlic and herbs. Cooked on ceder. Halibut warped in Bacon. Green beans for a veggie. with shrimp salad on the side. Or maybe some Asparagus drizzled in (evoo) extra virgin olive oil wrapped in bacon and grilled. And a type of citris-ish dessert. Some thing fresh but not to sweet. I will seend it to him Ty soon as I or you lol we nail down a dessert.


That's sounds good Kevin!  Can't go wrong with bacon on any meal.

All this talk about food, making me hungry.  All you food heads out there reading, care to start a thread on delicious meals.  I need more new recipes.  :)
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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2012, 04:08:39 AM »
That's how a Governor should be. Carrying the will of the state and not letting personal feelings intervene. Patt Quinn could learn a thing or two from him.
My reason for supporting the death penalty? A murderer has less of a right to live than his victim and already presents a danger while incarcerated for life. They have nothing to lose when the most they can get is Life in prison without parole.

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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2012, 09:45:30 AM »
Gore's attorneys file motion citing governor was unfairly influenced to sign death warrant

In a bid to save his life, attorneys for David Alan Gore filed papers Wednesday listing 5 reasons his April 12 execution should be stopped, including that Gov. Rick Scott was unfairly influenced to sign the serial killer's death warrant after meeting in January with the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers' editorial review board.

Calling his signed death warrant "nothing more than a rigged lottery," Gore's attorneys claim that before meeting with members of Scripps' editorial review board, Gore's death row case "was not even being considered for a death warrant."

In Gore's 28 years of appealing his punishment from death row, it's the first time attorneys have alleged his constitutional rights have been violated because a governor took action to sign his death warrant after discussing his case with members of a newspaper's editorial review board.

"It was during this referenced editorial board meeting on Jan. 5 when Mr. Gore's case was pushed to the front line," wrote attorneys John Abatecola and Linda McDermott. Neither was available for comment Wednesday.

In a 61-page motion to set aside Gore's death sentence and execution, his attorneys cite a videotaped conversation between Scott and Scripps' editorial review board members in which he was quizzed about the status of Gore's case and asked, "Is that something you can look into?"

"I'll look into it," Scott replied on the videotape.

According to Abatecola and McDermott, 12 days after that meeting, on Jan. 17, the Florida Parole Commission notified state Attorney General officials they were updating a clemency investigation that was 1st completed in 1987.

"Less than eight weeks after Gov. Scott's meeting with the editorial review board of Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, the Governor signed Mr. Gore's death warrant," the motion states. "The decision to authorize an execution should not turn on the partial interests of those with special access to the Governor, in this case a newspaper editorial board, or on one-sided advocacy where the condemned is not even notified of the process."

Gore, 58, was sentenced to death in the July 1983 1st-degree murder of Lynn Elliott in Vero Beach. He also was convicted in the murders of five other women in Indian River County for which he received 5 life prison terms.

His co-defendant and cousin Fred Waterfield is serving life in prison for his role in the crimes.

In signing Gore's death warrant, Scott was operating under the 1992 death sentence imposed by Circuit Judge Dan L. Vaughn, who presided over the second sentencing phase Gore received in the Elliott case after a federal judge in U.S. District Court threw out his original death penalty.

Gore's attorneys, in their motion, note that at least 42 of the 397 inmates on Florida's death row appear to have exhausted their appeals and "there's no principled way to distinguish between Mr. Gore and the decision to sign his death warrant ... from the decision to not sign a death warrant on these individuals ..."

Gore's lawyers further claim the clemency process in his case was applied in an "arbitrary and capricious manner" in violation of his U.S. constitutional rights.

Three other claims raised in Gore's motion center on charges he received ineffective assistance of counsel during his 1992 resentencing. A fifth claim alleges that because of the 28 years Gore has spent on death row, adding his execution to that punishment "would constitute cruel and unusual punishment."

"Such long-term suffering becomes a separate form of punishment," the motion notes, "which is equivalent to or greater than an actual execution."

Assistant State Attorney Ryan Butler said the state will file papers by Friday to respond. A hearing to review the issues is scheduled Tuesday before Circuit Judge Dan L. Vaughn.

"There doesn't appear to be anything significant in this motion," Butler noted Tuesday.

(source: TC Palm)

Just so no POS feels picked on let's have Gov Scott sign ALL the death warrants for the scumbags who have exhausted their appeals!  Would that make you feel better ambulance chasers?  >:( >:( >:(
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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2012, 09:46:51 AM »
Yet they don't complain when Governors (coughPatQuinncough) are influcenced by the poisonous penguin.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
My reason for supporting the death penalty? A murderer has less of a right to live than his victim and already presents a danger while incarcerated for life. They have nothing to lose when the most they can get is Life in prison without parole.

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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2012, 11:38:09 AM »
This SOB is going to have a much bigger problem than a needle prick and justice juice...oh do I hope he has to answer for these crimes...

A Serial Killer 'Talks' Too Much, Helped Speed Up His Own Execution

One of Florida's most notorious serial killers may have talked (or more accurately - written) himself into that state's execution chamber.

In the 1980s, David Gore murdered six women in the scenic shore community of Vero Beach. Unlike many serial killers, Gore "hunted" -- his word -- local women, including two mothers and four teenagers, instead of prostitutes.

For nearly 30 years, Gore has been sitting quietly on death row waiting for his name to be called. What few knew until last week is that Gore has spent the past five years chatting openly in letters about his gruesome crimes to a Las Vegas pen pal.

" had absolutely NO mercy. You said you read on the computer where it said one victim was fed to the alligators. That was true...."

Gore bragged in one of the hundreds of letters that he exchanged with Anthony Ciaglia.

Ciaglia, 34, began writing to Gore and more than two dozen other infamous serial killers after he suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him lonely and, at times, under a self-imposed "house arrest."

At age 15, Ciaglia was struck in the head by a jet ski while attending a summer camp near Dallas, Texas. His heart stopped beating three times en route to the hospital. When he emerged from a coma, he was a different person. The youth had flashes of uncontrollable rage, didn't recognize the consequences of his actions, was impulsive, was easily fixated on sex, was obsessive-compulsive and had difficulty speaking, walking, even eating.

Abandoned by his friends and soon despondent, Ciaglia struggled for years for some purpose in his life until he formed an unlikely kinship with serial killers. They lived in a physical prison, he explained. He lived in a "mental prison." Soon, he was calling the likes of Arthur Shawcross, 'The Genesee River Killer' who murdered 12 prostitutes in Rochester, N.Y, and Joe Roy Metheny, a self-described 'cannibal killer,' his new "best friends.'"

As their friendship grew, so did the depravity of the killers' letters -- especially Gore's. In often pornographic prose, the killer described with glee how he had abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered his "catches."

"If I could inflect pain, I inflicted it to the max," Gore declared, describing how he had scalped several victims to satisfy a hair fetish. "I really didn't want them to say a word...[while torturing his victims] It was like I had no emotions. I was just doing it. And you know where I got my biggest rush was really not the sex part, it was the capture. That was when I got a high..."

What makes the letters unusual is that the serial killers' words went straight from their minds to paper, without pretenses, niceties or preening for prosecutors, psychiatrists or the public.

Killer Shawcross revealed that he enjoyed choking his victims and then reviving them, with CPR if necessary, so he could continue torturing them. Metheney urged Ciaglia to contact a "local mortician" to try necrophilia.

When two investigators for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children asked for Ciaglia's help in locating the remains of women thought to have been murdered by Alaskan serial killer Robert C. Hansen, who hunted women like big game, Ciaglia's "hobby" took on a new objective. He set out to help police close cold cases.

Ciaglia's correspondence with Gore has had an unintended consequence. When the families of Gore's victims read the letters last week in my new nonfiction book, The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers (Simon & Schuster), they were understandably outraged.

Describing Gore's letters as "stomach-turning" and "repulsive," Vero Beach newspaper columnist Russ Lemmon met personally with Florida Gov. Rick Scott and urged him to read the book and finally sign Gore's death warrant. About 40 Florida death row inmates have exhausted their legal appeals and are waiting for the governor to schedule their execution either by lethal injection or electrocution. Scott promised to look into Gore's case.

The parents of Lynn Elliott also have urged Gov. Scott to take action. Their 17-year-old daughter was a popular high school student in July 1983 when she and a 14-year-old friend decided to hitchhike from one popular Vero Beach to another. Gore picked them up, drove them to his parent's house, and raped them. When he was momentarily distracted while sexually abusing her friend, Lynn bolted naked from the house. A nude Gore chased her down and shot her to death in the front yard, dumping her body into a car trunk before returning to sexually abuse his other defenseless captive. A boy riding by the house on his bicycle saw the shooting and told his mother who telephoned the police. Surrounded, Gore surrendered. Police found his other victim in the attic, terrorized but alive.

After Lynn's autopsy, her father insisted on seeing his daughter's body. Carl told the police that he wanted "to see every mark on her, where he drug her in the driveway and all the skinned-up parts on her knees and elbows, and every damn bullet hole. I want to see every scrape and every bruise. I want to remember in case I ever get soft on this thing. 'I want to remember, by God, that's what this bastard did to my daughter.' It was awful, but I have never regretted doing it.'"

Why would a convicted serial killer on Florida's death, who had exhausted his legal appeals, boost in letters about rapes and murders -- knowing his words would outrage the public?

Gore, who has put down his pen and is now keeping silent, might have provided a clue when he wrote this passage to Ciaglia:
...I don't think a serial killer really has a choice. They may be able to suppress their desire and urges, but if genes play a part, how do you change your genes? Even people who know it's wrong are powerless against it... I've never tried to hide from who I am. I've always known there was something inside of me that made me different...I'd be at a friend's house sometimes and I'd be seeing his wife and I'd be thinking -Damn, I'd like to [rape and kill] her -- and immediately after thinking that, I'd say to myself - Why am I thinking this? - you see, I'd know it wasn't right, but it was there lurking just beneath the surface, always on my mind...
He couldn't help himself.

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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2012, 02:11:18 PM »
David Gore's lawyers file death row appeal with Florida Supreme Court

By Melissa E. Holsman

Posted March 26, 2012 at 6:01 p.m.

David Alan Gore's attorneys filed papers with the Florida Supreme Court on Monday appealing an order by Circuit Judge Dan Vaughn that denied the serial killer's request for a hearing to present evidence related to several legal claims raised in an effort to stop his April 12 execution at Florida State Prison.

Gore, 58, is under a death warrant signed Feb. 28 by Gov. Rick Scott for the July 16, 1983 first-degree murder of Lynn Elliott, 17, of Vero Beach.

He's also serving multiple life prison terms after pleading guilty to killing five other women in Indian River County. His cousin and co-defendant, Fred Waterfield, is serving life in prison for his role in the crimes.

In the 86-page appeal, Gore's lawyers ask the Florida Supreme Court to hold oral arguments to better explore his claims of having inadequate legal counsel during his post-conviction relief proceedings.

"A full opportunity to air the issues through oral argument would be more than appropriate in this case," wrote Gore's attorneys, "given the seriousness of the claims involved, as well as Mr. Gore's pending execution date."

On March 13, Vaughn told Gore's court-appointed attorney Linda McDermott that none of the legal arguments presented to the court merited scheduling an additional hearing for his lawyers to further try to prove their claims.  :P :D ;D

Vaughn ruled that McDermott failed to convince the court that his execution should be stopped in part because the clemency process in his case was applied in an arbitrary and capricious manner in violation of his U.S. constitutional rights. Gov. Rick Scott also is accused of being unfairly influenced to sign Gore's death warrant Feb. 28 after meeting in January with the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers' editorial review board.

Three other claims raised by Gore center on charges he received ineffective assistance of counsel during his 1992 resentencing. A fifth claim alleged that because of the 28 years Gore has spent on death row, adding his execution to that punishment would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

The Attorney General's office is expected to file a response to Gore's appeal by Wednesday. His lawyers will then have the right to file a reply that's due April 2.

The Supreme Court has already indicated that if oral arguments need to be scheduled in Gore's case, they'll begin at 9 a.m. April 4 in Tallahassee.

Assistant State Attorney Ryan Butler said it's entirely up to the high court's discretion whether to listen to arguments in Gore's case.

"They may grant oral arguments or they may not," Butler said. "By Thursday or Friday, they'll let everybody know."

www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/crime/os-serial-killer-rapist-rick-scott...
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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2012, 03:27:56 PM »
"A fifth claim alleged that because of the 28 years Gore has spent on death row, adding his execution to that punishment would constitute cruel and unusual punishment."

And I am TOTALLY sure that the 28 years he spent on death row wasn't of his filing of multiple appeals too.  :'( Poor baby! Scum like this who were caught red - FREAKING - handed are ALWAYS cry babies when it comes time for them to pay the penalty for their crimes! He confessed, he lead the authorities to the unmarked graves, he BRAGGED about his crimes to his pen pal for God's sake and his scumyers are complaining that his 28 years on death row constitute cruel and unusual punishment? Really? This trash tortured, rape and murdered 6 innocents and HE is suffering?

Enough with this crap already!!! Let's not put this bag of poison to suffer any longer. C'mon April 12!!!!!

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Re: David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2012, 03:50:39 PM »

In July 1983, Gore and his cousin, Fred Waterfield, picked up Elliott, 17, and Regan Martin, 14, as the two Vero Beach girls were hitchhiking to Wabasso Beach.

Gore, 29 at the time, was a former auxiliary deputy with the Indian River County Sheriffs Office on probation for armed trespassing. He and Waterfield, 30 at the time, also of Vero Beach, handcuffed Elliott and Martin and drove them to Gore's parents' house on Fifth Street Southwest on the outskirts of Vero Beach where they raped the girls.

Elliott was shot as she tried to escape.


The discoveries led to Gore being convicted of murdering Barbara Ann Byer, Angelica LaVallee, Judy Kaye Daley, Hsiang Huang Ling and her daughter, Ying Hua Ling and sentenced to five consecutive life terms that were tacked on to his death sentence.


Yep, unduly influenced to rid this earth, of a child raping scum and serial killer. I think maybe the good people of Florida, would like to keep their teenagers safe, and get this scum gone as soon as possible!

Who cares who comes up first, out of appeals...time to meet your maker..I say sort them by date received, first in...first out!
"Indeed, the decision that capital punishment may be the appropriate sanction in extreme cases is an expression of the community's belief that certain crimes are themselves so grievous an affront to humanity that the only adequate response may be the penalty of death."  SCOTUS

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