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Frederick W. CUMMING-EL

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 


A.K.A.: Frederick Wooden
 
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Harassing - Angry because the victim had broken the relationship
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: September 16, 1991
Date of arrest: Same day
Date of birth: January 11, 1958
Victim profile: His former girlfriend Kathy Good
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife
Location: Dade County, Florida, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on February 19, 1993
 
 
 
 
 

Florida Supreme Court

 
opinion 82349 opinion SC01-1501
 
 
 
 
 
 

AKA: Frederick Wooden

DC#  120190
DOB:  01/11/58

Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Dade County, Case #91-33268
Sentencing Judge: The Honorable Joseph P. Farina     
Attorney, Criminal Trial: Theodore G. Mastos – Private
Attorney, Direct Appeal: John H. Lipinski – Special Appointed Public Defender
Attorney, Collateral Appeals: Pro Se

Date of Offense: 09/16/91

Date of Sentence: 02/19/93

Circumstances of Offense:

Frederick Cummings-El was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his former girlfriend Kathy Good.

Frederick Cummings-El and Kathy Good had dated and lived together for several months before the relationship ended.  Cummings-El continued to harass Good, and after he assaulted her at a neighbor’s house, she secured a restraining order against him.  Cummings-El continually made verbal threats towards Good, stating, “Kathy, I am going to kill you.  Kathy, I am going to kill you” and “I love her.  If I can’t have her, nobody can have her.”

In the early morning of 09/16/91, Cummings-El broke into the Good residence.  He entered Good’s room and stabbed her numerous times while she lay sleeping. 

Good’s eight-year-old son, who was sleeping next to her, awoke to the sound of his mother’s screams and saw Cummings-El “punching” her.  Good’s twenty-year-old nephew was asleep on the floor of her bedroom and reported seeing Cummings-El leaving the scene. 

As he was fleeing, Good’s mother confronted Cummings-El in the corridor, and he pushed her to the ground in his escape.  Good, wounded and bleeding, stumbled from her bedroom and fell into her mother’s arms, saying “Fred, Fred.”

Medical examiners concluded that Good died from the numerous stab wounds she endured.  Her lungs filled with fluid, and she essentially drowned in her own blood.  She remained conscious for several minutes following the attack and reportedly kept asking what was taking the emergency medical personnel so long.

Frederick Cummings-El was apprehended and charged with First-Degree Murder and Armed Robbery.  He was convicted and sentenced to death. 

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Trial Summary:

09/16/91          Defendant arrested.

03/17/92          Defendant indicted on the following:

Count I:           First-Degree Murder

Count II:          Armed Robbery

01/29/93          The jury found the defendant guilty on all counts.

02/03/93          Upon advisory sentencing, the jury, by an 8 to 4 majority, voted for the death penalty.

02/19/93          The defendant was sentenced as followed:

Count I:           First-Degree Murder – Death

Count II:          Armed Robbery – 22 years

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Case Information:

Cummings-El filed a Direct Appeal in the Florida Supreme Court on 09/13/93.  In that appeal, he argued that the trial court erred in applying the heinous, atrocious and cruel (HAC) aggravating factor and the cold, calculated and premeditated (CCP) aggravating factor.  The Florida Supreme Court found no merit to these claims and affirmed the convictions and sentence of death on 09/26/96.

Cummings-El next filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, which was denied on 06/16/97.

He then filed a Motion to Vacate Judgment and Sentence (3.850) in the State Circuit Court, which was denied on 06/14/01.  Cummings-El steadfastly filed an appeal of that decision in the Florida Supreme Court, which was affirmed on 10/09/03.

On 10/26/01, the defendant filed a Pro Se Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in the Florida Supreme Court.  That petition was dismissed without prejudice on 12/18/01 to be filed in the appropriate manner.  Cummings-el again filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus on 08/09/02, which was denied on 10/09/03.

Cummings-el filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in the United States District Court, which is currently pending.

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