FL FL - Danny Rolling, Gainesville Ripper, 8 known victims LA/FL 1989-90

[southcitymom]

Rest in Peace, Danny Rolling.

 

[Liz]

Filed From Florida State Prison
Jeff Weinsier, Local 10 Reporter

It's 3:30 Wednesday. I'm in a field full of satellite trucks, staring at the Florida State Prison. In an hour, myself and 11 other members of the media will board a bus and head into the prison. No cell phones, no pagers, no paper and pen. Like the victims' families, I have been waiting for this day for years and years.

By 5:30 p.m., I should be sitting in the witness chamber. I'm told the curtain will be closed.


More:
http://www.local10.com/news/10157281/detail.html

Unless there was a last second stay, Rolling should be dead by now. It was supposed to take about 10-15 minutes after the injections.

 

[Liz]

Now maybe Sonya Larsen, Christa Hoyt, Christina Powell, Tracy Paules and Manny Toboada can RIP!


CNN's Headline News Network is going to have a report on the execution in a few.

 

[Glow]

Im sure that Rollings had a very peaceful day, eating lobster,licking butter off of his fingers in his valium buffered reality.

I doubt he gave a single thought to having cut a girls head off, or any of the rest of it for that matter.

 

[englishleigh]

Now maybe Sonya Larsen, Christa Hoyt, Christina Powell, Tracy Paules and Manny Toboada can RIP!


CNN's Headline News Network is going to have a report on the execution in a few.

Thank God the is in hell now.

 

[Liz]

Rolling Executed By Lethal Injection
POSTED: 5:38 pm EDT October 25, 2006

STARKE, Fla. -- Danny Rolling was executed Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. for the 1990 murders and mutilations of five college students in Gainesville.

~snip~

Rolling was declared dead at 6:13 p.m.

Sadie Darnell, who was a spokeswoman for the Gainesville Police Department at the time of the murders, said she believes the process is so humane that it might disturb the families of the victims.

"One of my concerns is that for the family members who do witness that they may be struck and affected by how easy it is, that it's a gentle, mild form of death," she said.

Before the execution, Dianna Hoyt, whose stepdaughter, Christa Hoyt, was one of the victims, said she would rather have seen Rolling get executed by the electric chair like infamous serial killer Ted Bundy did when he was executed in Florida.

More:
http://www.local10.com/news/10159146/detail.html

 

[Shadow205]

Finally...justice is served.

 

[RiverRat]

Congratulations, State of Florida and D.O.C.

Signed,
We, The People

 

[RiverRat]

Reaction to Danny Rolling's execution

"We have had to think of how scared she was and how alone she was when she died. That day in August changed everything in our lives, how we would think and live from that day forward. (Her father) could not accept the pain and literally died of a broken heart before he could ever see this day. His last thoughts were of Christa, said Dianna Hoyt, stepmother of Christa Hoyt, one of Rolling's victims.

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"This was something hanging over our heads. Tracy will always live in our heart and mind," said Ricky Paules, mother of Tracy Paules, one of Rolling's victims.

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"What was done is done and we go on. "This is not just our tragedy, sadly enough this is an American tragedy," said Mario Taboada, brother of Manny Taboada, one of Rolling's victims.

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"It's been a long time for the family and close friends of the murdered students. I just hope this brings peace in their lives, but the pain will probably never go away," said Art Sandeen, a professor who was the vice president for student affairs at the time of the murders.

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"When these crimes happened in 1990 they were by far the most horrific thing that had ever occurred in Gainesville. Danny Rolling very quickly became the face of evil in our community," said Bill Cervone, State Attorney of 8th Circuit of Gainesville. "Having witnessed the execution, I'm not sure the punishment fits the crime but I can say in all honesty, Danny Rolling will never kill again."

"I saw the horror that he perpetrated on them, to watch his death in such an antiseptic and clinical environment convinces me that the punishment did not fit the crime. I couldn't tell you that I saw any emotion on his face at all," Cervone said.

 

[concernedperson]

He was too sedated to understand.I hope his hell is those kids' faces flashing before him for eternity.

 

[Gozgals]

:furious: Another one bites the dust. Rest in hell Danny Boy. Justice might be slow but you are gone now. I'm so sorry for all the victims you destroyed.


May you roast forever. :loser:

 

[txsvicki]

I wonder if Danny Rolling is now wishing that he had done what was right and not hunted and killed others to satisfy his own sexual deviancy and personality disorder. It's hard to believe that he would ever actually repent and not go to Hell even though he was singing his last song, a hymn.

 

[s_finch]

He was one sick puppy. So horrible the things he did. My sympathies to the friends and families of those he butchered.


So horrible the abuse he endured as a kid,,,,why do "mothers" allow their kids to be abused?????

 

[southcitymom]

He was one sick puppy. So horrible the things he did. My sympathies to the friends and families of those he butchered.


So horrible the abuse he endured as a kid,,,,why do "mothers" allow their kids to be abused?????

I would venture to say that many women who stand by while their children are abused are abuse victims themselves, unwilling and/or unable to upset their abusers due to the peril it would place them in.

Why did the father hate and abuse Danny Rollings from the moment he was born? The answer, I suspect, is that the father was also abused as a boy. Violence and abuse are a chain of pain.

 

[Ntegrity]

So horrible the abuse he endured as a kid,,,,why do "mothers" allow their kids to be abused?????

Yes, it was horrible and surely contributed to unleashing a homicidal monster on the human race. Danny's father was a cop. I'm sure his mother felt helpless to stand up to him since she couldn't count on his fellow cops doing anything to help. That must've been awful for her and her son.

I don't like the thought of Danny Rolling spending eternity in hell. I sincerely hope he repented before his death and that his song wasn't just for show. He was a tormented soul here on earth and I hope he's finally at peace. I also hope the families of his victims have peace. They deserve it after all these years of waiting for justice.

 

[WISCer]

Yes, it was horrible and surely contributed to unleashing a homicidal monster on the human race. Danny's father was a cop. I'm sure his mother felt helpless to stand up to him since she couldn't count on his fellow cops doing anything to help. That must've been awful for her and her son.

I don't like the thought of Danny Rolling spending eternity in hell. I sincerely hope he repented before his death and that his song wasn't just for show. He was a tormented soul here on earth and I hope he's finally at peace. I also hope the families of his victims have peace. They deserve it after all these years of waiting for justice.

While I too hope he was able to find forgiveness before he left this world....I, personally, think a TRUE Christian wouldn't have sung a hymn. Instead, they would have choosen to remain silent, out of respect for the families, or they would have admitted what they did was evil, apologize, and ask the families for forgiveness.

Was it just me or did the singing seem to be disrespectful and spiteful?????

 

[jannuncutt]

While I too hope he was able to find forgiveness before he left this world....I, personally, think a TRUE Christian wouldn't have sung a hymn. Instead, they would have choosen to remain silent, out of respect for the families, or they would have admitted what they did was evil, apologize, and ask the families for forgiveness.

Was it just me or did the singing seem to be disrespectful and spiteful?????

No, it is not just you. I thought the same thing myself.

 

[southcitymom]

While I will not hazzard to say what a TRUE Christian would do in similar circumstances because I am unable to see into another person's heart, I did not find Danny Rolling's singing to be disrespectful.

 

[Liz]

POSTED: 3:18 pm EDT October 26, 2006
UPDATED: 4:15 pm EDT October 26, 2006

STARKE, Fla. -- In 1990, Local 10 reporter Jeff Weinsier lived in Gainesville in Casablanca West, a mile from all the victims. Even though he was working on the story, he remembers that the fear he felt was as real as the terror felt by University of Florida students who wondered who would be the next to die. Weinsier still has the .38 special he bought for protection from Sapp's Pawnshop in the college town.

Wednesday, Weinsier was the only South Florida reporter chosen to witness the execution of Danny Rolling, the Gainesville serial killer.

Now, he is sharing his first-person account of execution day.

Part One: Execution Day --->
http://www.local10.com/news/10166968/detail.html


"Part Two: The Execution" will be posted later this afternoon.

 

[Ntegrity]

Thanks for that link, Liz. It'll be good to hear the reporter's interpretation of the singing. It's impossible for us to know whether it was done in a mocking way, so maybe he'll tell us!