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Docket #86882 - Phillip Alexander Atkins, Appellant, v. Jerry
Hill, etc., Appellee.
663 So. 2d 624; December 1, 1995. |
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Docket #80108 - Phillip Alexander
Atkins, Petitioner, vs. Harry K. Singletary, etc., Respondent.
622 So. 2d 951; May 27, 1993. |
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Docket #73869 - Phillip Alexander
Atkins, Petitioner, vs. Richard L. Dugger, etc., Respondents.
541 So. 2d 1165; April 13, 1989. |
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Docket #73910 - Phillip Alexander
Atkins, Appellant, vs. State of Florida, Appellee. 541 So. 2d
1165; April 13, 1989. (Consolidated Case). |
Florida executes second inmate in
two days
CNN.com
December 5, 1995
STARKE, Florida (CNN) -- Florida has executed its
second inmate in two days. Phillip Atkins, 40, who was convicted for
kidnapping, raping and beating a 6-year-old boy to death in 1981,
died Tuesday in Florida's electric chair.
Atkins kidnapped Antonio Castillo from his
Lakeland, Florida, home in 1981, took him to some nearby woods, and
sexually molested him. When the boy threatened to tell his parents,
Atkins beat the child to death with his hands and a steel pipe.
Before he was executed, Atkins apologized to
Castillo's family, who were present, in a long and rambling
statement. He said he was "ready to go on to the other side and meet
the Lord, my master."
On Monday, Jerry White, 47, who is an inmate at
the same prison in Starke, was executed for the 1981 murder of a
convenience store customer during a robbery. He also shot the store
owner, who was left paralyzed from his wounds.
Atkins is the 36th person in Florida to die since
the state resumed capital punishment in 1976. |
