TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott signed a death warrant Tuesday for John Errol Ferguson, who was convicted of eight murders in two separate incidents in South Florida in the 1970s. Ferguson’s signed death warrant comes after three decades of appeals and pleas for clemency, all which were denied. “He’s the most vicious, dangerous and violent murderer in Dade County, if not in many years, ever,†former Assistant State Attorney Leonard Glick said during a clemency hearing in 1987. “Nothing warrants mercy on his behalf...
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