Bob Martinez

Earlier in his career, he was Monroe County Sheriff, a prosecutor, a public defender, and a judge.

He ran for Lieutenant Governor alongside Governor Bob Martinez in 1990.

His ministry included serving prisoners and an inner-city mission.

Hmm.

Well, I think one of the things that everybody has been remembering is that Florida has been the state of Governor Ron DeSantis' leadership, which has been, I mean, you just really can't even, you can't overstate how transformational it's been compared to the way Florida was thought of and regarded, say, 10 years ago.

And the changes in the leadership in Florida really started to change under Governor Bob Martinez and Governor Jeb Bush.

I mean, it's been a long time coming

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Before Taffaro, a prison worker had bought a new one at a store in Stark, the department's own report said, and it was synthetic.

The Department of Corrections investigated for Governor Bob Martinez and called the result human error.

Its test, as Justice Gerald Cogan described it in a dissent that June, consisted of cutting a piece from the sponge, putting it in a common household toaster, and watching it smoke.

The prison physician swore that DeFaro felt nothing after the first surge.

Duh.

And, uh, other governors, Governor Bob Graham and Bob Martinez, uh, each, uh, pulled and said, "No, we're not doing it." And that's when it was the electric chair instead of, uh, the, uh, the shots, the lethal injections.

I know the Florida lethal injection doc, uh, said, uh, "No, no, we, we, we don't have any problem.

We're not like Tennessee, okay?" [laughs] Yeah.

Meanwhile, the governor, DeSantis, is the third Florida governor to sign a death warrant for Thompson.

Robert Graham and Bob Martinez both scheduled executions for him in the 80s.

But years of appeals and stays allowed him to avoid the electric chair, which was the state's method of execution at the time.

The 74-year-old death row inmate was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and sexual battery in 1976, killing a 23-year-old girl, Sally Ivester.