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Re: Mark Dean Schwab reset for execution by FL 7/1
« Reply #60 on Jul 1, 2008, 6:11pm »

None at all. Today is not a great day for any inmate in Florida who is near the end. Gov Charlie Crist in a statement earlier this week said that barring any mishap with the "new" protocol he would sign at least 1 more death warrant prior to the end of summer. I believe the total time of 15 minutes from start to finish of the procedure will more than meet that requirement and fully expect within the next month to be posting at least 1 new date for Florida.

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Re: Mark Dean Schwab reset for execution by FL 7/1
« Reply #61 on Sept 8, 2008, 7:08pm »

For Vicki Rios-Martinez, peace has come slowly over the years, growing bit by bit as she began writing poetry, tending her garden, listening for her dead son's voice when she meditated.

But complete closure to her family's 17-year-ordeal may never come. It still eludes them, even following their attendance at the July 1 execution of Mark Dean Schwab, the man who raped and murdered their 11-year-old son, Junny.

"It has brought about a peace ... just to know that we don't have to go to another appeal ... just to know that it's over and that he'll never get out and hurt another child," she said. "But closure? Seventeen years is way too long to wait for justice. And something that you cannot forget, it's real hard to close the door."

For nearly 2 decades Rios-Martinez and her husband, Braulio, who also goes by the nickname Junny, have occupied a prominent — and unwanted — role in the nation's long-running debate over the death penalty.

Their son's murder in 1991 became what is now a familiar cable-TV mega-event, complete with breathless reports and frenzied speculation.

Junny, a sandy-haired boy with a sunny disposition and a winning smile, became a target after his photograph appeared in the local newspaper. Schwab, just 2 weeks past an early release from prison for raping a 13-year-old boy, saw the photo and became fixated.

Posing as a journalist, he tried to weasel his way into Junny's world, eventually pretending to be his father in a telephone call and arranging to pick up the boy at school. Schwab then kidnapped, raped and murdered Junny.

He was arrested within days and led police to the footlocker where he had stowed the boy's body.

But losing their son and watching his killer arrested was only the start of the Rios-Martinez family's ordeal.

The trial was over in about 15 months, with Schwab convicted and sentenced to death. But the appeals process lasted nearly 15 years, prolonging the family's suffering, they said.

"With him (Schwab) being alive and still going through appeals, your life is always in a turmoil. ... It's never a balance," Vicki Rios-Martinez said. "It's always going to have that roller coaster ride."

Their journey was painful and hard, filled with understandable anger and bitterness that slowly gave way to acceptance, an attempt to move on emotionally and eventually the slow accrual of a sense of peace.

But nothing was easy, nothing a given. The family's outspoken criticism of the glacial pace of the appeals process and their insistence that Schwab pay the ultimate price for his crime made them a target for some death penalty opponents who claim execution is cruel and inhumane.

Junny Rios-Martinez — the nickname, which came from his grandmother, he goes by and gave to his son — went through a long period of anger that still flashes quickly to the surface. He once routinely pummeled a boxing bag to vent his fury.

He finally channeled the anger into building an addition onto the rear of their neat home that fronts a small lake. There's an upstairs music studio, pine-paneled walls covered with photos of their son and a wraparound porch fronting the lake, complete with a big swinging hammock.

Vicki Rios-Martinez met the challenge of her son's death with concerted attempts to make something positive out of the tragedy. Over the years, with her husband as partner, she battled for children's rights and became an advocate against abuse and for the rights of the victims of crimes.

The experience left her frustrated with legislators and the criminal justice system, which she says is weighted far too much in favor of protecting criminals' rights at the expense of victims' rights.

"We definitely need to have a better system," she said. "We definitely need to have a children's bill of rights. We definitely need to have a victim's justice system, and we need to start changing it now."

Junny Martinez makes no apologies for the couple's outspoken support of the death penalty. Schwab's execution was delayed because of court challenges sparked by a botched 2006 execution in which a condemned man took more than 30 minutes to die by lethal injection.

"Those bleeding hearts, the majority of them have no children and couldn't fathom what we've been through," he said. "They haven't a clue. And yet they all have an opinion. And they feel that their opinion is much more important."

The couple insists Schwab's death was humane and even "peaceful," unlike what their son went through at his killer's hands, they said.

Vicki Rios-Martinez opposed the death penalty before her family's tragedy, out of a reverence for all life. She now supports it, she says, because she feels she must do so in order to protect other children from killers like Schwab.

The couple has worked hard to move on over the years, but it's clear the wounds of their loss are still close beneath the surface.

In her garden, Vicki Rios-Martinez tends a dazzling array of flowers and shrubs, but one holds a special place in her heart. A potted peace lily is the only flower left from her son's memorial service so many years ago.

"I killed everything else," she said, laughing at her woeful early attempts at gardening, which she says miraculously ended when her dead son spoke to her. "Then one day Junny told me, 'Mom, you want a green thumb? You've got one.'"

(source: Palm Beach Post)

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