Attorney Peter
Cannon argues in court for a stay of execution Tuesday. Insets:
Schwab, left,
and victim Junny Rios-Martinez [AP file photos]
Florida's lethal injection gurney is shown in an undated handout
photo taken in the redesigned death chamber which will accommodate
either the electric chair or the gurney at Florida State Prison.
Pedophile and killer Mark Dean Schwab is to die Tuesday, July 1,
2008, in the first Florida execution since 2006, when state prison
workers botched a lethal injection so badly that the U.S. Supreme
Court temporarily stopped executions across the country
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