Former Fla. Police Officer Scheduled for Execution

Associated Press ^ | December 10, 2012 | TAMARA LUSH

[ConservativeStatement]

Manuel Pardo was a decorated Florida highway patrolman and police officer who went horribly bad, slaying nine people during a three-month crime spree after he had been fired for lying.

Now, almost 27 years later, Pardo, 56, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night at Florida State Prison in Starke barring a last-minute stay, fulfilling a request he made to jurors at his 1988 trial.

[ConservativeStatement]

Film noir at 11.

[US Navy Vet]

Like the SOB:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Peyer

[Dudoight]

Wow! What a story!

[BenLurkin]

27 years is WAY too long.

[dfwgator]

BZZZZZZZZZZT!

(Too bad they did away with old Sparky).

I was in class when Ted Bundy rode the lightning, as a joke somebody in the class flickered the lights on and off, right at the moment Ted got it.

[ConservativeStatement]

That is funny. We had a tamer version: someone pulled a plug from the TV during the final episode of M*A*S*H.

[ozaukeemom]

I remember when that was going on. It was horrifying. That SOB deserves to be put to death.

[Lancey Howard]

I was in class when Ted Bundy rode the lightning, as a joke somebody in the class flickered the lights on and off, right at the moment Ted got it.

That's hilarious!

[IMR 4350]

Is this the case where there were, IIRC, 15 corrupt cops ripping of and killing dope dealers and Janet Reno helped to cover it up?

[dragnet2]

Manuel Pardo.

He's the brother of the mass suicide Heavens Gate clan.

Try to imagine this guy pulling you over for a traffic ticket.

[dragnet2]

Here's his brother from his cult days...

[Ditter]

I can remember hearing people who lived in Huntsville Texas say that the lights in town would dim when a criminal was executed in old sparky. Don’t know if they were kidding or telling the truth.

[GOPJ]

...27 years is WAY too long.

You're right. Something is very wrong with a system that takes 27 years and precious court time to rid the world of this kind of scum...

[LeonardFMason]

Let’s hope they forget to soak the sponge.

[krogers58]

The electric chair, without exception, always had generators installed at the prison, near to the execution sight.

[BenLurkin]

Exactly.

[ozaukeemom]

The case I was remembering was the cop in San Doego who killed Cara Knott. It was a high profile case.