Former Police Officer To Be Executed On Tuesday
Former police officer Manuel Pardo is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday evening for the murder of nine people in 1986.
According to USA Today, Pardo is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday night at Florida State Prison. Pardo’s lawyers have filed an appeal saying that their client should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
Lawyer Ronald Guralnick said: ”I think that anyone who would get up and ask a jury sentence him to death is insane.”
According to News Channel 6, Pardo was a respected member of the Florida police force but was eventually fired for lying during a trial. After Pardo was fired he went on a three-month crime spree and ended up killing nine people. Most of Pardo’s victims were involved with drugs, although some were just innocent bystanders, and Pardo argued that he was doing the world a favor by killing his victims.
During his trial Pardo said:
“They’re parasites and they’re leeches, and they have no right to be alive. Somebody had to kill these people.”
Pardo’s lawyers may be trying to stall their client’s execution but Pardo has been waiting for this day for a long time. At the end of his trial in 1988 Pardo pleaded with the jury to quickly send him to death row.
Pardo said:
“I am a soldier, I accomplished my mission and I humbly ask you to give me the glory of ending my life and not send me to spend the rest of my days in state prison.”
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Posted: December 10, 2012
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Dec 10, 2012
I will pay 500 bucks to push the plunger on him.
Dec 10, 2012
Why stall the death of Manuel Pardo who is scheduled to die at Florida State Prison death house tomorrow evening, don't make no since to stop it, hell the asswipe has a death wish hook him up, he will not be killing nobody else.
Dec 10, 2012
Since you're in uniform, I'll pay half.
Dec 10, 2012
Strap him to a chair and put him in a room with all the family and friends of his victims that were affected. Those people would pay to do this and it would save taxpayer money.
Dec 10, 2012
Why did it take 26 years? Should be a set set of rules in place to be followed for death penelty including any DNA test and executed within 1 year.
Dec 10, 2012
He murdered druggies. He should get a medal!
Dec 10, 2012
texan bush would have killed him a long time ago jeb must be a pussy.
Dec 10, 2012
See ya, Pig! That retard in the governor's mansion isn't going to save your lousy ass. I'd send you to the state pen and toss you to the cons.
Dec 10, 2012
SO MUCH FOR SERVE AND PROTECT HUH?
Dec 10, 2012
The man admitted his crimes and asked that the death penalty be applied and here we are 30 years later and he's still converting oxygen into carbon dioxide? I can almost understand a lengthy period of time (and by lengthy, I mean 5-10, not 30 years) to afford the convict time to exhaust his appealate rights under state law and for him/her to come to terms with their crimes and make what ammends that they can but to leave this guy on death row for thirty years just seems like a lot of wasted tax payer money. We need an express lane for death row cases like this. Give him five years to decide if he wants to appeal his sentence and if not or the appeal fails turn out the lights.
Dec 10, 2012
For situations like these: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/12/death.row.exoneration/index.html
Dec 10, 2012
You stall the death because you want the perpetrator to reflect on his misdeeds. The longer you keep him in jail waiting for death the more he suffers waiting for death. It's a mental anguish thing. At least that's what I like to believe. The truth is the courts do allow all due process and has to allow this monster all the appeals option that is available by law.
Dec 10, 2012
Just horrible, if he wants to die, so be it. Sad for the victims.
Dec 10, 2012
just another worless POS!
Dec 10, 2012
“They’re parasites and they’re leeches, and they have no right to be alive. Somebody had to kill these people.”.
Sounds like he was acting logically and rationally to me. Kill him.
Dec 10, 2012
I agree. There should be a set of rules 1) only one appeal, if they find you guitly again tough SH** 2) execute them within 1 year and stop fiddling around 3) they take up a huge amount of space, time and energy to be watched and maintained. If they commit a murder they should have a speedy execution. We have Thomas Capano in 1999 he was sentenced to death for killing Anna Marie Fahey, he is still sitting on death row. Why?
Dec 10, 2012
Now he said,"they're parasites and they're leeches, and they have no right to be alive. Somebody had to kill these people!" Now Pardo, what you did on to others, will be done unto you. You not only killed drug dealers, in order to take their drugs and money… but you killed several people, that had nothing to do with drugs, or illegal crimes. So what about those people, some say that it was for the 'thrill' you got out of it. I for one will not weep for you!
Dec 10, 2012
26 years, the tax payers paid for this guy's food and color TV….what a freakin' joke. IN China he would have been long gone. In this country, criminals have better lives than working law-abiding citizens when they are sent to prison. It does NOT make sense. Gang members sure as hell don't care any more. They get to see their friends when they go back.
Dec 10, 2012
Sarcastic?
Dec 10, 2012
Only in America they can get by with this kind of stuff and the tax payer has to support, play health care, dental live years free.
Dec 10, 2012
Yeah – I remember this guy. He is one of the shape shifters from Fringe!
Dec 10, 2012
The jury should have had this man executed immediatley.
Dec 10, 2012
I say we do like other countries. If one is found guilty beyond a doubt of a horrific crime such as this, on the day they are sentenced to die, they be brought out to a waiting van that has the gurney and chemicals to carry out a lethal injection immediately after sentence
Dec 10, 2012
Cameron 'Elbows' Meyer, you are confusing the cases. I actually checked out your link. House was proved innocent by DNA testing and other sound evidences and testimonies while former Officer Padro 'was' killing people, making himself Judge/Jury, confessed to doing it and gave 'his own reasonable' reasons why he 'decided' these people had to die. I wonder how you would feel if one of your loved ones happened to be a victim of his recklessness…Raymond Soretire, Houston, TX.
Dec 10, 2012
you have been given the right to remain SILENT.
Dec 10, 2012
If you can convince the U.S. Supreme Court, ACLU, the numerous Human Rights and Religious Watch groups, and the condemned to forego the appeal process I vote for execution upon sentencing.
Dec 10, 2012
26 years to carry out justice is ridiculous. These states and mainly the US government need to clean up their appeals process so that people like this are executed in a timely fashion, not almost 30 yrs later. Look at California, only eleven people have been executed since they reinstated the death penalty 36 years ago and the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, age 51 is expected to be in his 70s when he is finally executed because of the appeals process. Ridiculous.
Dec 10, 2012
West Memphis 3 ring a bell??? I'm all for quickly executing these subhumans but only if the subhumans within the police depts, prosecutor's office, etc. are executed just as quickly when it is discovered that they jailed an innocent person. Sometimes it takes decades to unravel the ball of yarn put forth by the brotherhood…………….
Dec 10, 2012
The irony is that he may be executed before cop killer Mumia Abul-Jamal.
Dec 10, 2012
what a real nazi pig! and his lawyer sounds just as bad. someone ought to investigate him too.
Dec 10, 2012
Cameron – your example is without merit. It couldn't be further from similarity. Pardo stated he did it. He also asked for a speedy execution. Where did you think an exoneration would come from? He was found guilty … he stated he was guilty … he was given the death penalty … he requested it come sooner rather than later. This wasn't a man pleading innocence.
Dec 10, 2012
I agree. He should NOT be put to death, but instead, should live in a 5 by 5 cell for the rest of his days, without any form of communication from other human beings. EVER.
Dec 10, 2012
Look at those eyes. I don't think anything they do to him would make a difference. He's too far gone. What a sad story. I wonder if he would have snapped had he not been fired – or would he have used his status as a police officer to shoot first and answer questions later?
Dec 10, 2012
WOW I guess I could say he murdered people from Ohio so he should get a medal, and then I would fell like David Reid
Dec 10, 2012
WOW I guess I could say he murdered people from Ohio so he should get a medal, and then I would feel so proud of my self, like David Reid
Dec 10, 2012
He ASKED the jury to kill him! He admitted his crimes. I think he lawyers are just a bunch of parsites and making $$ off the state as they are most likely appointed by the state. "Quick get in one last appeal before the cut his chain"!
Dec 10, 2012
ohh so you like how china does things..sooo why dont you go live there and log into your facebook acct and state your thoughts…ohh thats right you cant, because china doesnt allow people to have free thoughts or facebook..yea they really got it going on there…not…
Dec 11, 2012
You need to go back to basic English classes. Dewey don't write that you are from the University Of Central Texas when you can't put a sentence together.
Dec 11, 2012
i aggree he should get a metal lol
Dec 11, 2012
really? thats the solution? give him a medal? what if one of those druggies was a member of your family…a brother or sister of yours who needed help and could have benifited from help? i guess you just need to kill everyone who is in need of help huh? no mercy huh? i'l bet you are a christian to huh? i'd be willing to bet you voted for bussh( both of them) and romney too……how very christian of you….just kill the weak and be done with them……you should be ashamed….but i guess your god says its ok to just kill whomever…oh wait he does say that…..
Dec 11, 2012
ill bet you are a christian huh?
Dec 11, 2012
wow….ill bet your god taught you that……you are sad….innocent people were killed… people who had nothing to do but be in the wromg place at the wrong time… i guess they deserved to die also huh….how fuckin' christian of you……
Dec 11, 2012
sounds like a true southern redneck creatard reaction…..
Jan 8, 2013
well…..say what you will…but we will never go to war with China….why? Because we would lose. God is on the side with the biggest army!!! lol
Jan 28, 2013
Ok so he's getting his wish. Done. Next case.
Feb 28, 2013
Thanks for the good work. And now for the final favor.