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[36] [37] The day after Cole's conviction, the same jury unanimously recommended that Cole should be given the death penalty for the murder of John Edwards. [38] [39] On December 21, 1995, Circuit Judge William T. Swigert formally sentenced Cole to death for murdering Edwards. Cole was simultaneously sentenced to life in prison for the other ...
Cole, 57, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Aug. 28 at Florida State Prison. August execution date set for Florida man involved in 1994 killing and rape in national forest Skip to main ...
The 57-year-old man sentenced to death in the murder of a Florida State University student in 1994 is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. – more than 30 years after the crime.. Gov. Ron DeSantis ...
Cole was convicted of first-degree murder in the Feb. 18, 1994, killing of Florida State University freshman John Edwards, as well as sexual assault for raping Edward's 21-year-old sister at the time.
At Cole's week-long trial in October 2007, the jury deliberated for less than 90 minutes before finding her guilty of first-degree murder. [9] They voted 9-3 for her to receive the death penalty. [6] Evidence included photos of Cole and two co-defendants in a limousine, celebrating with champagne and hands full of cash. [citation needed]
The pair were put on trial and convicted for raping and murdering Fife, but out of the two, only Hill, who was 18 when the killing occurred, was sentenced to death while Combs was spared the death sentence due to his age of 17 at the time of the murder and hence, he was sentenced to life in prison. Combs died in prison in 2018 at the age of 50 ...
Florida executed Loran Cole on Thursday in the 1994 murder of an 18-year-old college student whose big sister was raped during what started as a fun camping weekend and became a family's worst ...
Todd Christopher Sampsell was born on March 7, 1971, in Florida and was raised in South Carolina and Georgia. [2] [3] His parents divorced when he was two years old.His mother gained custody and married another man the following year.