Pardo v. State
Annotate this CaseA jury found Defendant guilty of nine counts of first-degree murder. The trial court imposed a death sentence for each of the first-degree murder counts. The convictions and death sentences were affirmed on appeal, and Defendant's subsequent motion for postconviction relief and petition for writ of habeas corpus were denied. The Governor signed a death warrant for Defendant, and the execution was set for December 11, 2012. Defendant filed a successive motion for postconviction relief, which the circuit court denied. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the circuit court did not err in (1) denying relief on Defendant's constitutional challenge to Florida's lethal injection protocol; (2) denying Defendant's public records requests; (3) denying Defendant's claim that he was incompetent to stand trial as procedurally barred; (4) denying relief on Defendant's claim that he was denied a full and fair clemency proceeding; and (5) denying Defendant's claim that executing him after the twenty-four years he spent on death row constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
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