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Execution Gurney in Florida
Execution Scheduled for February 4. 2004
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Governor Jeb Bush signed Mr. Johnny L. Robinson's death warrant on December 18. 2003. Mr. Robinson is scheduled to be executed on February 4. 2004 at 6. p.m. We ask you to please read the material provided. New evidence shows Mr. Robinson is not guilty of Capital Murder. False evidence was presented against him. Relevant information that should have been disclosed was withheld from him. His counsel failed to conduct the trial effectively. His public records claim have not been properly acted upon and most importantly: Mr. Robinson is a victim of racism and prejudice, which this web page will show. Thank You for your interest! Florida Support The Case in a nutshell:
Johnny Robinson is an African
American man on death row in Florida for the murder of a white woman. He was
tried by an all-white jury in 1986. That conviction stood, but he was granted
a re-sentencing because the prosecutor had injected comments into his
arguments that could have inflamed racial prejudice among the jurors. He was
re-sentenced to death in 1989 by a jury of 11 whites and one black. Johnny
Robinson was tried in St Johns County. Between 1976 and 1987, 33 white people
and 25 black people were murdered in the county. Three people, including
Johnny Robinson, received death sentences. All had been convicted of crimes
against whites. Robinson's appeal lawyers also raised evidence that in the
wider Seventh Judicial Circuit, within which St Johns is one of four counties,
murders with white victims were about 13 times more likely to result in a
death sentence than in cases where the victim was black, and a black who kills
a white is over 35 times more likely to receive a death sentence than a black
who kills a black.(78) Another prisoner on death row from this Circuit is
Louis Gaskin, black, tried in front of an all-white jury in 1990 for the
murder of a white man.
On August 12, 1985, the body of Beverly St. George was found in Pellicer Creek Cemetery in St. Johns County, Florida. An autopsy revealed that she had died early that morning as a result of two gunshot wounds, one to the forehead and one to the left cheek. The medical examiner testified that the wound to the forehead was caused by discharge of a gun that was six inches to two feet away from the skin; the other wound was caused by a gun in contact with the cheek when fired. The sequence of the wounds could not be determined. The medical examiner testified, however, that either shot would have killed her virtually instantly. Johnny Robinson and Clinton Bernard Fields, a juvenile, were arrested for the murder on August 17. Upon arrest, Robinson waived his rights and gave a sworn statement to the police. According to his statement, Robinson and Fields left a party around 11:30 p.m. on the evening of August 11, 1985, and headed towards Orlando to visit Robinson's girl friend. On the way, they saw a car pulled off on the side of the road and stopped to help. The woman told them that she was tired and had stopped to rest. Robinson claimed that when the woman noticed that Robinson had a gun, she wished aloud that she had something similar so she could kill her ex-husband. She agreed to go with the two men in their car to Pellicer Cemetery. Once there, Robinson and Ms. St. George engaged in consensual sex on the hood of his car. During this activity, Robinson took the gun out of his pants and placed it on the hood. Afterwards, according to Robinson's statement, a scuffle ensued during which the gun went off accidentally, hitting Ms. St. George in the face. He said when he realized what had happened, he shot her again out of fear that no one would believe a black man had accidentally shot a white woman. Not surprisingly, Fields testified against Robinson at trial and told a different story. According to Fields' testimony, when they stopped at the car on the side of the road, Robinson ordered Ms. St. George at gunpoint into the backseat of Robinson's car where he handcuffed her. Robinson ordered Fields to go through her purse but he refused. At Pellicer Creek Cemetery, Robinson raped Ms. St. George and then ordered Fields to do likewise. Fields further testified that after the sexual activity, Robinson expressed fear that the woman could identify him and his car and said that the only way she could not make an identification was if she were dead. Robinson then walked up to the victim and put the gun to her cheek. Fields turned his head, heard a shot, and later saw the woman on the ground. Robinson then shot her a second time. They drove to a desolate area where Robinson took the money from the woman's purse and then burned the rest of her property. At the penalty phase, the state introduced evidence that Robinson was convicted of rape in Maryland in 1979, sentenced to ten years in prison, and was out on parole at the time of this incident. The defense presented Dr. Harry Krop, a clinical psychologist, who testified to six non-statutory mitigating circumstances: that Robinson was severely intoxicated, resulting in impaired judgment; that Robinson was severely emotionally deprived because he had never known his mother; that he had been physically abused by the man (not his biological father) who had raised him; that he had been sexually abused by an uncle, resulting in a psychosexual disorder; and that he had suffered emotional trauma as a result of being incarcerated in an adult prison at the age of 13. Krop was of the opinion that Robinson, who frequently made extra money as a mechanic, originally stopped his car to help Ms. St. George. He was convinced that the subsequent sexual involvement and violence occurred as a result of poor judgment. At sentencing, additional testimony was presented from a guard at the St. Johns County Jail that Robinson was an outstanding inmate and was responsible on four occasions for quelling possible disturbances at the jail. Mr. Johnny L. Robinson was found guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and sexual battery. The jury, by a vote of 9 to 3, recommended death for the murder and the trial court, finding seven aggravating circumstances and one mitigating circumstance, sentenced Robinson to death. Contact Information / Florida Support:
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