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DISPATCHES | Issue: "Question of Faith" April 05, 1997

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They better not do it in the state of Florida because we may have a problem with our electric chair.

BOB BUTTERWORTH, Florida's attorney general, commenting on the potential deterrent effect of the execution of murderer Pedro Medina, whose head caught fire after the fatal jolt of electricity. Witnesses of the execution gasped as a maintenance supervisor wearing electrical gloves patted out the flames and another official opened a window to let out the smoke.

The last thing we want to do is generate sympathy for these killers.

Lt. Gov. Buddy MacKay, suggesting Florida should change its mode of execution.

That's probably the dumbest motive I've ever heard.

Detective Sgt. Emilio Yannacone, a 22-year veteran policeman in Key West, Fla., who was investigating the murder of a busboy who was shot apparently as the result of an argument over how to put silverware into the dishwasher. The suspect, Jose Antonio Borrell, told Reyes Blas Morales that he wasn't putting the flatware into the proper containers to be washed. The two argued, then Mr. Borrell left and returned 45 minutes later with a 9 mm semiautomatic.

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