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nm 13CH 16A Sun-Sentinel, Thursday, July 16, 1992 PB Alabama parolee gets death penalty for Florida murder Anniston, police commissioner, stabbed Pauline Pitts Casey to death in August 1990 at Santa Rosa Beach, a resort com-, munity in the Florida Panhandle. The victim, a former nurse and Army veteran, had been kidnapped from a tavern where she had begun working as a bartender. Her body was found in woods. Melvin also sentenced Suggs to 22 years for kidnapping and 12 years for armed burglary. The prison terms are to run concurrently with each other but consecutive to the death sentence in case it is reduced to life on survived her injuries and testified against Suggs.

After serving only 10 years, Suggs was paroled in 1389. At the time of Casey's slaying, Suggs was living at his parents' beach home near where Casey was murdered. Suggs was arrested after investigators found $200, the same a-mount of money stolen from the tavern, soaking in a sink at the Suggs home. Authorities also found a military manual on the use of rifles, bayonets and knives, which included photos showing wounds similar to those on Casey's body, at the home. A fellow inmate testified during the penalty phase of Suggs' trial last month that he told him he didn't make the same mistake he did in Alabama because this time he "got rid of the witness." The trial was held in Milton, about 50 miles west of Defuniak Springs, because of extensive pretrial publicity about the case in Walton County.

Alabama officials defended Suggs' parole after he was arrested in Florida, denying that he received special treatment. The Associated Press DEFUNIAK SPRINGS A parolee who killed again 13 months after being released from prison for an Alabama murder on Wednesday was sentenced to die in Florida's electric chair. Circuit Judge Laura Melvin followed a jury recommendation that Ernest Donald Suggs be executed. He was convicted last month of first-degree murder. Death and life in prison for at least 25 years without parole were the only sentences possible.

Suggs, 37, the son of a former Ernest Donald Suggs, the son of a former Anniston, police commissioner, stabbed Pauline Pitts Casey to death in August 1990 at Santa Rosa Beach, a resort community in the Florida Panhandle. appeal. All death cases automatically are appealed to the Florida Supreme Court. Suggs had received a sentence of life plus 30 years in Alabama' for the 1978 shootings of two Fort McClellan, soldiers who he had offered a ride. He killed Spec.

4 Leslie Hakes, 21, of Denver, but Kathie Robb Drayton, then a 19-year-old Army private from Saugerties, N.Y., Officers capture 2 state prison escapees from Dade County, also escaped from the prison but was recaptured on Wednesday morning about two miles away. Bryant said the two were among a group of some 12 inmates who were working under guard outside the prison when they fled. Shots were fired at the two fleeing inmates. Neither was hit. was tracked down by corrections officers and dogs in Lawtey about 7:20 p.m., said Paula Bryant, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections in Tallahassee.

"The dogs tracked his scent from some footprints in the river," Bryant said. Juan Vega, serving a 30-year sentence for a cocaine offense The Associated Press STARKE A convicted killer was captured on Wednesday nearly 10 miles from Florida State Prison, where he fled from a work detail earlier in the day, a corrections spokeswoman said. Abdulah Ben-Hamid, serving a life sentence for first-degree murder from Volusia County, CHANNEL ONE "It is very poor judgment to force highly impressionable youngsters to watch advertising under the guise of education," she said. But oilier parents said students will tune out the commercials and Forest Hill should be given a chance to experiment. Craig Sessions, the student representative who sits with the School Board, said Channel One can only benefit students because they don't receive many current-events lessons in school.

"They're going to be learning the whole time," he said. "I don't see how this is going to harm students." The Tennessee-based Whittle Communications, a for-profit company, earns about $630,000 a day for the four 30-second commercials that accompany its broadcasts. FROM PAGE 1A Forest Hill High set for 3-year trial of Channel One study. Channel One is now seen in more than 9,000 schools every day, including 252 in Florida. Forest Hill will be the first public school in Palm Beach County to use Channel One, although several private schools have it.

About a half-dozen parents and Forest Hill High School Principal Wayne Nagy spoke before the board about Channel One. Maureen Steindler, who has two children in Palm Beach County schools, said students should not be subjected to more commercials. NAACP honors three soldiers The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tehn. Lt. General John B.

Conaway, chief of the National Guard Bureau, was recognized on Wednesday by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for his contribution to equal opportunity in military service. Two military personnel at Florida installations also were honored. Conaway, a Henderson, native, is this year's winner of the civil rights organization's Meritorious Service Award. He was cited for making equal opportunity for all races a major goal of the National Guard. Winners of the Roy Wilkins Renown Service Award for contributions to equality in the military included two people from Florida: Lt.

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