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Fort Lauderdale News, Wednesday, March 9, 1988 17A Keys land purchase approved Martinez issues 7th death warrant in Darden case Courts stay executions of 2 convicts 'V Iff (Yk Calvin Klein pantyhose with a fitting touch of spandex 20 off" P600 Ulfra-Sheer Sheer to Waist pairs, 24.00, 12 pairs 45.00 Regularly 5.00 pair. Colors: I to 7 H700 Daytime Sheer Sheer to Waist (Tpalr.s, 22.80, 12 pairs 42.60 Regularly 4.75 pair. Colors: 2. 2, 7 720 Daytime Sheer Control Top (Tpairs, 24.00, 12 pairs 45.00 Regularly 5.00 pair. Colors: 2, 3.

5, 6, 7 The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE Gov. Bob Martinez and the Cabinet voted on Tuesday to buy 132 acres in North Key Largo, completing about one-third of the state's acquisition of the privately owned land in the North Key Largo Hammocks project. The panel also gave state negotiators approval to continue talks on buying another parcel in the Monroe County project, the 343-acre Bayside property. The state has been negotiating to buy the land since 1984. However, the Cabinet deferred action on a proposed marina in Curry Cove, adjacent to John Pen-nekamp Coral Reef State Park on the southern part of Key Largo, the longest of the Florida Keys.

The marina was proposed as part of a 372-unit residential development. By unanimous vote, the panel approved spending $1.14 million for buying the 132-acre parcel from private owners Floyd V. Thompson and Joan T. and Edward B. Knight The North Key Largo Hammocks project is ranked No.

1 on the Conservation and Recreation Lands list that targets environmentally valuable land for state ownership and management as public parks. abuse the process any further," said Joe Spicola, the governor's general counsel. "There's absolutely no possible legitimate reason that the sentence should not be carried out. The governor feels that enough is enough. The law has to have finality some time." Darden was convicted of killing Lakeland furniture store owner James Turman during a 1973 robbery.

His supporters contend he is innocent, citing sworn statements from a minister and another Lakeland resident stating that Darden could not have been at the furniture store when Turman was killed. Martinez has said that the case has been thoroughly reviewed and that there was no reason for further consideration of the alibi claim. Darden's case has been to the U.S. Supreme Court four times. It is the most-litigated case involving a Florida Death Row inmate, with nearly 100 judges involved in decisions.

In their 6-3 ruling on Monday, the justices held that Darden had received a fair trial and was properly sentenced. The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE Gov. Bob Martinez, acting with unusual speed, signed a seventh death warrant on Tuesday for Willie Jasper Darden, only a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a post-conviction appeal. Meanwhile, federal courts have agreed to indefinitely block the executions of two other convicted killers scheduled to die today in Florida's electric chair.

In the Darden case, Martinez set the execution for 7 a.m. on Tuesday, also a departure from normal procedure. Executions usually are scheduled about a month after warrants are signed. Darden's case, however, has been unusual in several respects. No other Florida inmate has survived as many death warrants.

Amnesty International, Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov, American actress Margot Kidder and British rock star Peter Gabriel have urged clemency for Darden, 54, but Martinez has been unimpressed with their argument that he is innocent and has a valid alibi. "He I Darden is not going to Willie Jasper Darden The execution is scheduled for Florida State Prison in Starke. The new warrant will remain in effect for a week, beginning at 7 a.m. March 15, the date of the execution, through 7 a.m.

March 22. Darden has been on Death Row since Jan. 29, 1974. Two inmates scheduled for execution today obtained stays on Tuesday from federal judges. U.S.

District Judge Maurice Paul issued a stay on Tuesday for Larry Joe Johnson, convicted in the 1979 killing of a gas station attendant. And Jessie Joseph Tafero, convicted of the 1976 slayings of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Phillip A. Black and a visiting Canadian constable, Donald Robert Irwin of Kitchener, Ontario, was granted an indefinite stay by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. ff00 tight Support Sheer to Woist (Tpairs, 27.60, 12 pairs 51.60 Regularly 5.75 pair.

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