David Alan Gore - FL - 4/12/2012

[Grinning Grim Reaper]

From the Supreme Court of Florida:

CONCLUSION
 
In accordance with our analysis above, we affirm the summary denial of relief by the circuit court. We further hold that Gore is not entitled to relief from this Court under the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in Martinez v. Ryan. No motion for rehearing will be entertained by this Court. The mandate shall issue immediately.
 
It is so ordered.
 
CANADY, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, POLSTON, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.

It's time to kiss your a$$ goodbye Gore!

[Grinning Grim Reaper]

U.S. News

Florida inmate awaits execution

VERO BEACH, Fla., April 9 (UPI) -- David Alan Gore, on Florida's death row since 1984 after confessing to six murders that shocked the state, has exhausted all appeals and faces execution.

Gore awaits his fate in Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla., after Gov. Rick Scott signed his death warrant on Feb. 28. The execution is scheduled for Thursday evening.
 
It was a 1983 rape and murder of 17-year-old Lynn Elliott in Vero Beach, Fla., that sent Gore to prison where he has spent 28 years attempting to overturn his death sentence. He was sentenced to death a second time in 1992 after being granted a new sentencing proceeding by a federal judge, and is also serving five consecutive life sentences for other murders.
 
Authorities say Gore and his cousin and accomplice Fred Waterfield, known as "The Killing Cousins," were responsible for a series of crimes in Indian River County, Fla., that began in 1981. Waterfield is currently serving multiple prison terms for the 1983 deaths of two Orlando teenagers.
 
Although Gore is permitted to grant media interviews prior to his execution, he has declined to participate, prison officials said.
The guy is obviously a poor loser! 

The crimes recall an era when the killings dissolved the community's notion that Vero Beach and the area of southeast Florida known as the Treasure Coast was a quaint and peaceful area, TCPalm.com reported Monday.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/04/09/Florida-inmate-awaits-execution/UPI-26041334003278/#ixzz1rfIKBKIA

[RevKev]

Hopefully this long overdue justice will finally take place.

[Russki]

He has been on DR for so long he has probably forgotten why he is there. An outrage of justice to give him so much more life than his victims.

[Grinning Grim Reaper]

Surviving serial killer's victim asks officials to stop his Thursday execution
 
A Colorado woman who in 1976 accused David Alan Gore of sexually assaulting her at gunpoint in a Florida orange grove is urging state officials to stop the condemned serial killer's Thursday execution for the murder of a 17-year-old girl.
 
VERO BEACH, Fla. - Angela Hommell, 56, a German native who lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., calls herself a rape survivor. And despite the trauma and death threats she says she endured July 21, 1976 after being abducted by Gore and his cousin Fred Waterfield, she said she's distraught over Gore's scheduled execution
 
"I don't believe in the death penalty. I'm Roman Catholic and in Germany we think the death penalty is barbaric," Hommell said during a March interview with Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. 

Then get your a$$ back to Germany and keep your big effing nose out of our business! 

Read more here:  http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...ecution041012/

[k"KKK"hirschkorn]

I am sorry for what happened to you. Nothing will change what he did, But we can honor the ones who's live he took. And guarantee he will harm no one.

[UKTom]

Then get your a$$ back to Germany and keep your big effing nose out of our business! 

I think that’s a bit harsh. This poor lady had her life turned upside down at a young age and is the victim of a horrific crime – Rape! She, like everyone else, is entitled to her opinion and to have been the victim of a murdering rapist and still hold those opinions is actually very courageous!

[Russki]

"I think that’s a bit harsh. This poor lady had her life turned upside down at a young age and is the victim of a horrific crime – Rape! She, like everyone else, is entitled to her opinion and to have been the victim of a murdering rapist and still hold those opinions is actually very courageous! "

Up to a point, you are right but he is being executed for murder.

[AnneTheBelgian]

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/apr/10/gores-attorneys-ask-us-supreme-court-to-block/

David Gore's attorneys ask U.S. Supreme Court to block his execution

By Melissa E. Holsman
   
Posted April 10, 2012 at 6:20 p.m.

Attorneys representing condemned killer David Alan Gore on Tuesday took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to stop his execution scheduled Thursday at Florida State Prison.

Gore's attorneys filed motions before the nation's high court after the Florida Supreme Court on Monday denied a post conviction appeal he filed after Gov. Rick Scott signed his death warrant Feb. 28.

Gore, 58, is expected to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday for the 1983 first-degree murder of Lynn Elliott, 17, of Vero Beach.

He also is serving several life prison terms after pleading guilty to killing five other women in Indian River County between 1981 and 1983.

In legal papers filed Tuesday, Gore's attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the state Supreme Court's decision that upheld a trial court's order issued in March. That ruling, issued by Circuit Judge Dan Vaughn, denied Gore's request for a hearing to present evidence related to legal claims raised in an effort to stop his execution.

Assistant State Attorney Ryan Butler said lawyers with the Florida Attorney General's office are expected to file legal responses as early as Wednesday.

"The Florida Supreme Court found no merit to these claims," Butler noted Tuesday. "And we don't believe anything has changed in the last 24 hours to convince the U.S. Supreme Court otherwise."

Gore's attorneys John Abatecola, Linda McDermott and Martin McClain have declined to discuss his legal case.

His lawyers also bypassed the U.S. District Court and filed to the U.S. Supreme Court a writ of habeas corpus, essentially asking the justices to determine the legality of his incarceration. The lawyers noted in a 24-page brief that since his 1984 conviction, Gore has twice filed federal habeas petitions before the U.S. District Court, with one resulting in a sentencing do-over in 1992.

His second federal habeas petition, Gore's attorneys noted, was denied in 2008.

Gore again presented claims that his post conviction attorneys failed to sufficiently argue that he received ineffective counsel at his 1992 resentencing. His attorneys based their argument on a recent U.S. Supreme Court's ruling they said found a defendant has to have an effective attorney in the appeal process to show ineffective counsel at trial.







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Anne

[Grinning Grim Reaper]

I think that’s a bit harsh....not as harsh as raping, torturing and murdering six young women and girls!

[k"KKK"hirschkorn]

Yes and no Tom..  She has her believes. And stands buy them. But I vote fry the dude. Its a guarantee  he wont hurt any one. Now if you think hes  a good guy come get him, and let him live his life with you. Other wise Piss off.

Then get your a$$ back to Germany and keep your big effing nose out of our business! 

I think that’s a bit harsh. This poor lady had her life turned upside down at a young age and is the victim of a horrific crime – Rape! She, like everyone else, is entitled to her opinion and to have been the victim of a murdering rapist and still hold those opinions is actually very courageous!

[UKTom]

Wow! Intelligence fail! Angela Hommell was raped and had her life threatened by David Gore…she has endured more at the hands of this particularly nasty man than all of us combined. She is voicing her opinion that he be shown mercy which she is entitled too. Just as you are entitled to share your opinion that he should be executed.

All I was pointing out was that it was particularly nasty of one of the comments in this thread to tell a rape victim of David Gore (someone who has more connection to this killer than all of us) that she has no business voicing her opinion and should go back to Germany. Very insensitive and shows little compassion to a genuine victim of a horrific crime.

And at no point have I made any assertation as to David Gores actions. They were vile, evil and inexcusable!

[phlebbb]

Wow! Intelligence fail! Angela Hommell was raped and had her life threatened by David Gore…she has endured more at the hands of this particularly nasty man than all of us combined. She is voicing her opinion that he be shown mercy which she is entitled too. Just as you are entitled to share your opinion that he should be executed.

All I was pointing out was that it was particularly nasty of one of the comments in this thread to tell a rape victim of David Gore (someone who has more connection to this killer than all of us) that she has no business voicing her opinion and should go back to Germany. Very insensitive and shows little compassion to a genuine victim of a horrific crime.

And at no point have I made any assertation as to David Gores actions. They were vile, evil and inexcusable!

While  Angela Hommell is entitled  to her opinion due to suffering at the hands of Mr.Gore, her opinion will NOT
sway the judicial judgement of the State of Florida.  Her belief that Gore should get L.W.O.P  is her  prerogative,however, David Alan Gore,will unless saved by SCOTUS,be given a lethal Injection at 6 pm on Thurs.
4/12/12. His actions have earned his sentence,no one else's,his. David Gore killed those folks and now has to pay the price .....
 

[AnneTheBelgian]

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120411/ARTICLES/120419944?p=1&tc=pg

Execution of serial killer scheduled for Thursday evening

By Anne Geggis

Staff writer

Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7:56 a.m.

Last Modified: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7:56 a.m.

Thursday's scheduled execution of convicted serial killer David Alan Gore's would reduce the number of inmates sitting on Florida's death row to 399.

Nancy Byer, of Asheville, N.C., said that she will be there, hoping this ending gives her some release from the 29-year agony she's lived with since her 14-year-old daughter, Barbara Byer, died at Gore's hands.

“We're glad it's come to this,” she said. “We're ready.”

Gore, 58, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison for the 1983 first-degree murder of Vero Beach teenager Lynn Elliot. He has pleaded guilty to the killing of Byer, two other teenage girls and two women he abducted, tortured and killed between 1981 and 1983 in Vero Beach with the help of his cousin Fred Waterfield, 59, who is serving life in prison.

On Tuesday, Gore's lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block his execution on the grounds that federal courts must hear his claim of receiving ineffective legal assistance. The appeal is based on the same claim the state Supreme Court rejected on Monday.

Gore's lawyers did not return a call seeking comment.

Gore's is the fourth death warrant that Gov. Rick Scott has signed. The governor signed it one month after meeting with the editorial board of Treasure Coast Newspapers, who asked Scott about Gore's case, drawing the governor's attention to Gore's own words in the book “The Serial Killer Whisperer,” which was published earlier this year.

In the book, former Washington Post writer Peter Earley recounts the case of Tony Ciaglia, who wrote to Gore and other serial killers after he suffered a severe head injury. Ciaglia wanted to better understand them, Earley explains, and received about 200 pages from Gore beginning in 2007.

In the opening pages of the book, Earley quotes from Gore's letters that allude to Gore enjoying “the fruits of our labor.”

Russ Lemmon, a columnist on the Treasure Coast Newspapers' editorial board, said he believes the book put Gore's case on the governor's radar.

“I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone with more heinous crimes on death row,” Lemmon said. “And there's no doubt he did it.”

Part of Gore's appeal to the state Supreme Court, though, says that the governor opted to sign Gore's death warrant because of the newspaper's editorial — a claim the court does not address. But Gov. Rick Scott's office said the editorial and the book were simply coincidental to Thursday's scheduled execution.

“There are several people on death row, they are scheduled to receive the death penalty and Gov. Scott has a constitutional duty to sign the death warrant,” said Lane Wright, the governor's spokesman. “He didn't read the book.”

Byer, however, is just looking for this chapter to close, so she doesn't have to think about David Alan Gore anymore … and so she can remember more about her daughter's 14 years of life.

“She was in the gifted program, friendly,” Byer said. “She was good with children. She was good with adults. She took dance. She played in the band … clarinet.

“She was a 14-year-old.”






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Anne

[Jim S]

He was not sentenced to death for the rape of Ms. Hommell. He was sentence to Death for the Murders of his other victims. This is why he deserves to die. Her not wanting him executed is irrelevant!