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Unlike in today’s court system, death penalty cases moved briskly in the 1970s. Within one year of the Gans murders, Knight was convicted and sent to Death Row.
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…..item 1)…. Thomas Knight, who killed Miami couple and a prison guard, executed …

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Posted on Tuesday, 01.07.14

BY DAVID OVALLE
DOVALLE@MIAMIHERALD.COM

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STARKE — Miami triple murderer Thomas Knight was executed Tuesday evening, offering no apology to his victims’ families or last words at all.

He was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m.

Knight loaded up on sweets and visited with a friend earlier in the day and his demeanor before the execution was calm, a Florida corrections spokeswoman said Tuesday afternoon.

Knight ate portions of sweet potato pie, coconut cake, banana nut bread, vanilla ice cream, strawberry-and-butter pecan ice cream and Fritos corn chips — all washed down by a quarter of a bottle of Sprite.

The condemned inmate – who has been awaiting execution for nearly four decades – visited with an unidentified friend Tuesday, one day after meeting with four of his sisters.
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This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows inmate Askari Abdullah Muhammad, previously known as Thomas Knight, convicted of abducting and killing a Miami couple and later stabbing a prison guard to death is set to be

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In this 1974 file photo, police lead away Thomas Knight in southwest Dade County. Tim Chapman / MIAMI HERALD FILE

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Thomas Knight’s 1974 booking mugshot.

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— Knight’s dark history

July 17, 1974 – Thomas Knight kidnaps and murders Sydney and Lillian Gans of Bay Harbor Islands. He is immediately arrested.

September 1974 – Knight and 10 other inmates escape from Dade County jail. He is placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.

October 1974 – Police believe Knight and another man fatally shoot a liquor store clerk during a robbery for $641 in Crisp County, GA. He is not charged.

December 1974 – FBI agents capture Knight in New Smyrna Beach. He is found with a shotgun and two pistols, all tolen.

April 1976 – A Miami-Dade jury convicts Knight of murdering the couple. He is sentenced to death.

October 1980 – Using a sharpened spoon, Knight stabs and kills corrections Officer Richard Burke at the Florida State Prison in Starke.

March 1981 – Knight is scheduled to be executed after Gov. Lawton Chiles signs his death warrant. A federal judge stays his execution pending more appeals.

January 1983 – Knight is convicted and sentenced to death for the Burke murder.

January 1996 – A federal appeals court overturns his death sentence in the Gans case, ordering a new penalty phase trial.

February 1996 – After a new sentencing phase, Knight is again sentenced to death. He is repeatedly banned from the courtroom because of his disruptive behavior.

March 2006 – With state courts repeatedly affirming his conviction and sentence, Knight’s lawyers appeal to a Miami federal judge.

November 2012 – Six years after the appeal was first filed, Miami U.S. Judge Adalberto Jordan reverses Knight’s death sentence. He orders a new sentencing hearing or life sentences for the convict.

September 2013 – A federal appeals court reverses Judge Jordan, reinstating the death penalty for Knight. “To learn about the gridlock and inefficiency of death penalty litigation, look no further than this appeal,” the court writes.

October 2013 – Gov. Rick Scott signs death warrant for Knight, not for the Miami-Dade murders but for the slaying of Burke. The execution is scheduled for Dec. 3.

November 2013 – The Florida Supreme Court delays the execution, ordering a Bradford judge to hold a hearing to consider whether a new drug used in the lethal injection procedure constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

December 2013 – The state’s high court lifts the stay of execution after ruling Knight has failed to prove the drug is unsafe. Gov. Rick Scott re-schedules the execution for Jan. 7.

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Knight is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. for the 1980 stabbing of Richard Burke, a corrections officer at Florida State Prison, where the inmate is to be put to death by lethal injection.

The 62-year-old will leave behind a legacy of bloodshed, including the crime that landed him on Florida’s Death Row to begin with: the 1974 kidnapping and murders of a Bay Harbor Islands couple, Sydney and Lillian Gans.

Barring a last-minute stay, the execution will cap Knight’s 40-year slog through the criminal justice system, which has infuriated relatives of the victims and led a federal court to blast the “gridlock and inefficiency of death penalty litigation.”

Knight, then a parolee, was an employee of Sydney Gans, a prominent paper bag company owner, when he kidnapped the businessman in July 1974.

The gunman Knight forced Gans to drive to his Bay Harbor Islands home, where Lillian Gans was also abducted. Afterward, Knight forced Sydney Gans – as his wife was held at rifle-point inside the car – to go into a Downtown Miami bank and withdraw $50,000.

Gans alerted authorities, before returning to the car because he feared for his wife’s safety.

FBI agents and police officer covertly followed the car as it sped toward South Miami-Dade. But authorities lost track of the car – a blunder that has long angered the Gans surviving relatives.

In a remote wooded area, Knight shot each of his hostages with a bullet to the neck. After hours of searching, officers found Knight hiding in the mud.

While awaiting trial, Knight and 10 other inmates escaped from the Dade County jail. He was suspected of killing a clerk at a Georgia liquor store while on the lam, though he was never charged.

After 101 days as a fugitive, the FBI captured Knight in New Smyrna Beach.

Unlike in today’s court system, death penalty cases moved briskly in the 1970s. Within one year of the Gans murders, Knight was convicted and sent to Death Row.

It was there that Knight, upset that he was not allowed to visit with his mother at the prison, fatally stabbed Burke in the chest. He was later convicted and sent back to Death Row to also face execution for the slaying of the prison officer.

Knight escaped a March 1981 execution date after a federal judge granted a stay.

In the years that followed, Knight’s appeals moved glacially through the system.

A federal court reversed the death sentence in 1986, saying he should have been allowed to present background and character witnesses during a penalty phase trial.

One decade later, Knight was again sentenced to death – after a trial marked by his disruptive behavior and cursing at the judge.

That sentence sparked a whole new slew of appeals. In 2006, he appealed a federal court – and it was not until six years later that the judge, again, reversed the death sentence. The reason: Knight’s right to cross-examine witnesses had been violated.

But in September, a federal appeals court restored the death sentence. One month later, Gov. Rick Scott signed Knight’s death warrant for the Burke murder.
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Forensic psychiatrist for UCSF Dr. Renee Binder touches on the challenges of identifying violent tendencies in people with mental illness. Dr. Binder sees higher tendency rates of violence with people with serious mental illnesses but is cautious not to stigmatize mental illness in general.

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Summary
This panel of experts explores what society can do to stop the mentally ill from committing horrific acts of violence, often with the use of guns. How do state and federal laws protect the rights of the mentally ill persons while also protecting the community at large?
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Event Date:
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Renee L. Binder,
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Robert J. McMenomy

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Actor and activist Richard Dreyfuss worries that computing and broadcast technology have effectively removed time from our collective decision-making process.

"We no longer ruminate, contemplate, think things through or change our minds," says Dreyfuss. "In geopolitics, the removal of time is fatal."

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"Now, It Looks Like Its Your Turn."

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(TALLAHASSEE, FL) – January 7, 2014 – On Friday, January 10, a diverse group of local clergy – affectionately known as “The God Squad” – will host Andy and Kate Grosmaire, whose 19-year-old daughter Ann was killed by her boyfriend in 2010. Joined by the Reverend Allison DeFoor, who had a critical role in the events that unfolded following Ann’s death, they will share their journey of loss and forgiveness and their struggle to define what justice is in the face of profound and unthinkable personal tragedy.

Together they will tell a story of two families seeking another way despite incredible obstacles – a story that takes them across the country, around the world and deep inside their hearts – to bring to fruition an idea unlikely to happen anywhere, much less in the panhandle of North Florida. There are few stories like the one the Grosmaires will tell in the world today.

“Restorative Justice: Rethinking the Role of Forgiveness” is on Friday, January 10 from noon to 1 pm at First Baptist Church (108 W. College Avenue), with lunch available beginning at 11:30. Rev. Dave Killeen of St. John’s Episcopal Church will moderate.
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The Faith, Food, Friday series began in 2011 in the hope that neighbors breaking bread together could begin to heal the political divide that has so paralyzed our nation. People from all faith communities – or those not a part of any faith community – are all invited to participate in these improbable conversations.

The series is hosted by local nonprofit “The Village Square,” dedicated to building community across the partisan divide in order to improve the quality of the civic conversation in America today. The Village Square’s model of civic engagement is drawing attention from across the country, with new locations beginning in Kansas City and California.

“The God Squad” includes Rev. Dave Killeen of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Pastor Darrick McGhee of Bible Based Church, Rev. Betsy Ouellette of Good Samaritan United Methodist Church, Rabbi Jack Romberg of Temple Israel and Dr. Bill Shiell of First Baptist Church.

All Faith, Food, Friday forums are free and open to the public. Lunch is available for $8 if you RSVP by the Tuesday ahead of the program and $10 with a late reservation or at the door – all lunches are paid cash or check at the door. You may also bring a brown bag lunch or not eat. For a menu, more information or to reserve your seat, go online to wiki.tothevillagesquare.org/x/e4Df, call 590-6646 or email fff@tothevillagesquare.org.
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