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A suspected serial slayer erstwhile scrutinized for a imaginable nexus to the O.J. Simpson lawsuit that riveted the federation successful the mid-1990s was executed Thursday evening successful Florida for the execution of a pistillate successful a Tampa motel room.
Glen Rogers, 62, received a lethal injection astatine Florida State Prison adjacent Starke.
He was convicted successful Florida of the 1995 robbery and execution of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old parent of 2 helium had met astatine a bar, and sentenced to decease successful 1997. According to tribunal documents, Rogers killed Cribbs and stole her car, fleeing the authorities earlier being stopped aft a road pursuit successful Kentucky.
Execution acceptable aft decades of failed appeals
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Rogers' decease warrant connected Tuesday, marking the fifth specified execution this twelvemonth successful Florida.
A missive from Attorney General James Uthmeier to the politician elaborate a bid of appeals that person been rejected implicit much than 2 decades. One of the astir caller came successful 2021, erstwhile the Florida Supreme Court denied an entreaty successful which Rogers asserted "newly discovered evidence" of intersexual maltreatment helium said helium endured arsenic a child—including astatine the now-closed Training Institute of Central Ohio, a juvenile-detention facility. Rogers claimed the trauma had been repressed until 2019. The decease warrant is apt to punctual a last circular of ineligible challenges.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Rogers' last appeals connected Wednesday without comment.
Nationally, 15 radical person been executed arsenic of May 1 crossed 8 states, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. That compares with 25 executions nationwide successful each of 2024.
Rogers besides sentenced to decease successful California
Rogers besides received a abstracted decease condemnation successful California for the 1995 strangulation sidesplitting of Sandra Gallagher, a parent of 3 whom helium met astatine a barroom successful Van Nuys conscionable weeks earlier the Cribbs murder.
Nicknamed the "Casanova Killer" and "Cross Country Killer" successful media reports, Rogers has been linked to aggregate different slayings crossed the U.S. and erstwhile told constabulary helium had killed astir 70 people. He aboriginal recanted that claim, but was the taxable of the 2012 documentary My Brother the Serial Killer, which featured his member Clay and a transgression profiler who corresponded with Rogers successful prison.
Documentary raised O.J. Simpson lawsuit questions
That documentary raised questions astir whether Rogers could person been progressive successful the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and her person Ron Goldman.
During a wide publicized proceedings successful 1995, erstwhile NFL prima O.J. Simpson was acquitted of their murders. After the documentary aired, Los Angeles constabulary and prosecutors said they recovered nary credible nexus betwixt Rogers and the case.
"We cognize who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We person nary crushed to judge that Mr. Rogers was involved," the Los Angeles Police Department said astatine the time.
Simpson, who maintained his innocence but was recovered liable for the deaths successful a civilian case, aboriginal served 9 years successful situation connected unrelated charges. He died successful April 2024 astatine property 76 pursuing a conflict with cancer.
Rogers' signifier of victims and however Florida carries retired executions
Rogers' pistillate victims — some confirmed and suspected — often shared akin traits, including petite builds, reddish hair, and being successful their 30s. He was primitively from Hamilton, Ohio.
Florida uses a three-drug cocktail for executions by lethal injection: a sedative, a paralytic, and a cause that stops the heart, according to the authorities Corrections Department.
More executions scheduled successful Florida
Another Florida inmate, Anthony Wainwright, is scheduled to beryllium executed June 10 for the 1994 kidnapping, rape, and execution of a pistillate successful Lake City.
This communicative includes accusation from the News Service of Florida.
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