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-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
2021-07-27
[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

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

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

#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  

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

#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  

#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  

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

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

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

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

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

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