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Post by rayozz on Dec 4, 2012 19:22:50 GMT -6
This is one sick guy, and a former policeman. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Rick Scott has signed a death warrant for a man convicted of nine murders. Manuel Pardo Jr. is scheduled to die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Raiford at 6 p.m., Dec. 11. The 56-year-old Pardo faces the death penalty for nine execution-style murders in 1986. When police arrested him, they found a collection of Nazi memorabilia in his apartment. Pardo, who is a former Sweetwater police officer, confessed to the killings, but said his victims were drug dealers who "have no right to live." Pardo was convicted of all nine murders in 1988 and sentenced to death. www.dc.state.fl.us/InmatePhotos/1/111983.jpg [/img]
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Post by unkelremus on Dec 6, 2012 4:44:17 GMT -6
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 6, 2012 5:27:26 GMT -6
Blimey I thought that was Pierluigi Collina then
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Post by rayozz on Dec 6, 2012 9:07:14 GMT -6
Blimey I thought that was Pierluigi Collina then Collina's head only reached that elongated shape when he was making a decision and being animated. I see what you mean though.
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Post by moonlight on Dec 6, 2012 14:37:24 GMT -6
I really don't know what to say about that one. A former police officer convicted of killing 9 people for being drug dealers. Just cannot base an opinion whether he should live or die for his actions. I must say, quite an interesting case
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Post by whitediamonds on Dec 6, 2012 15:24:52 GMT -6
Can't have vigilante justice acted out by an individual, maybe he thinks it is worth his life for taking out 9 drug murderers. That's what drug dealers are" mass serial killers too.
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Post by moonlight on Dec 7, 2012 8:28:12 GMT -6
And that is exactly my dilemma about the guy scheduled for execution. By all means, non of his victims were choir boys.
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Post by starbux on Dec 11, 2012 4:02:59 GMT -6
I am happy that he killed 9 thugs their lives are spit. I have mixed opinion on this I like some vigilante justice because I hate criminals. Since he was not killing innocent people I think he could get pass in my book. They can let him out to kill more thugs. Oh we'll I guess it's game over for him. I won't loose any sleep over it.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 11, 2012 4:41:02 GMT -6
Whoa! He wouldn't get a pass in my book. I dont care who he killed.
Pierrepoint once said: The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
And in my opinion he was right.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 11, 2012 4:56:31 GMT -6
miami.cbslocal.com/2012/12/10/confessions-of-a-serial-killer-a-first-person-account/I met Manny Pardo 22 years ago on death row at the Florida State Prison in Starke. “How many people did you kill?” I asked Pardo, a one-time cop-turned serial killer. “I was convicted of killing nine people,” he said. The qualifier was obvious. It has long been thought that Pardo, who did his murderous deeds in the height of Miami’s “Cocaine Cowboys” era, committed murders for which he was not charged. We had our cold-blooded chat, the serial killer and I, in a small room, surrounded by guards. “How many times, give or take, did you shoot each of your victims?” I asked. “Well, as many as I felt that was necessary,” Pardo said. “I felt good doing it so, if I ran out of bullets, I put another clip in my gun.” Pardo had been an Eagle Scout. He’d earned a master’s degree. He became a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and later a Sweetwater police officer. He would lose his license to be a cop after testifying falsely for a pal charged in a drug-running case. His work found him surrounded by the cash, bling, fast cars and fast women that came with the host of coke and pot dealers that crowded South Florida. He wanted some of it. He went after it homicidally, killing nine people that we know of, six men and three women in a three month spree. “It was my New Year’s resolution for 1986,” Pardo told me. “What did you resolve to yourself, what went through your mind?” I asked. “That I would systematically eliminate as many as I could before they finally caught me or killed me,” he said, a conviction in his voice. Pardo said he believed he was relieving the community of the “scum of the earth.” He was a vigilante, on a crusade to clean up the town. “Did you enjoy it?” I asked. “Yeah, hell yeah, I enjoyed it,” Pardo said, his feet bouncing up and down on the prison floor, shackles jangling. “Are you kidding me? Of course, I felt good. I felt great. I felt I was doing a service to mankind. They had no right to be alive.” At trial, Pardo’s attorney played an insanity defense amid the killer’s claim that he had the “right” to do what he was doing. Defense attorney Ron Guralnick told me, “He doesn’t have the right. That’s the whole point. He thinks he has the right, and therein lies his insanity.” There was a certain, well, crazy air to Pardo the day we spoke. His assertions were passionate, his appearance odd. At trial, Pardo had a full head of thick dark hair. On death row, he sported a pate shaved clean. He had a nervous disorder that caused him to pluck his eyebrows and eyelashes with his fingers. There was not a hair anywhere on his head. Our conversation returned to the killings. “How would you feel after?” “Fantastic,” he said. “I would go home and go to sleep. Inside I felt great. I was proud of myself.” “How would you sleep?” I inquired. “Like a baby,” Pardo said. Among the claims at trial was that Pardo killed some who were innocent, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sara Musa, a beautiful young woman, happened to be with one of Pardo’s darker victims when the ex-cop struck. She was killed execution style. There was nothing to tie her to any illicit activity. The suggestion was she died so no witnesses would be left behind. “She wasn’t a drug dealer, she was not,” Musa’s brother Gino said. “She had no criminal record.” Pardo maintained denial when we spoke. “I could never kill an innocent person, that I couldn’t live with. But one of these people,” Pardo said, referring to the so-called “scum” he was eradicating, “I cold put twenty bullets in them and go to sleep like a baby.” Prosecutor David Waxman, who convinced a jury to find Pardo guilty on all counts, told me the killer’s denials in our death row interview added to his list of transgressions. “I told the jury he’s a thief, he’s a robber, he’s a murderer,” Waxman told me. “And now he’s a liar.” The state wanted the death penalty and Pardo, at the sentencing portion of the jury’s deliberations, seconded the motion. “I’m a soldier, I accomplished my mission,” Pardo told the jury. “Give me the glory to at least end my days in a proper fashion, not be condemned to a state institution. That’s why I am ready for the death sentence.” The jury granted Pardo’s plea. Barring an eleventh hour intervention by the courts, an executioner will slip a hypodermic needle into Pardo’s arm Tuesday evening at six o’clock, and the serial killer cop will go to sleep like a baby…forever
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Post by whitediamonds on Dec 11, 2012 9:00:00 GMT -6
A serial killer is a serial killer, a vigilante act is a vigilante act. He is not claiming innocent, he is not trying to avoid the DP, and for those he murdered it is hard to find the compassion for. He was honest on his feelings and why he did what he did. In his mind he was doing good. He was an individual deciding who will die, including himself he knew would die too by king drug lords or the state itself. His defense is saying he is insane" (as usual)Pardo himself stated he did not want to be incarcerated for yrs, he wants death.
Then to top it all off, in another state there would be no DP for him, serial killer or not.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 11, 2012 9:38:34 GMT -6
Lets hope he gets what he wants today then
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Post by whitediamonds on Dec 11, 2012 9:47:10 GMT -6
Lets hope he gets what he wants today then Did not leave his defense attorneys anything, so I believe he will get what he wants. No "pardo" for him coming
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 11, 2012 11:08:40 GMT -6
Former Florida cop to be executed for murdering 9 peopleSTARKE, Fla. – A former Florida police officer was scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the murder of nine people in a 1986 rampage over three months. The execution by lethal injection of 56-year-old Manuel Pardo was set for 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke. A federal judge denied Pardo's request for a stay Monday. Officials said most of Pardo's victims were involved with drugs. Pardo contended that he was doing the world a favor by killing them in 1986. "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," Pardo told jurors at his 1988 trial. Pardo's attorneys are trying to block his execution, arguing in federal appeals that he is mentally ill, something his trial attorney believed more than two decades ago. Pardo was dubbed the "Death Row Romeo" after he corresponded with dozens of women and persuaded many to send him money Regino Musa, the brother of one of Pardo's victims, said it's difficult to grasp that the execution will finally happen. He and his elderly mother plan to attend. "It's about time. It's been so long, you just want to get it over with," said Musa, whose sister, Sara Musa, was killed by Pardo. "I still have nightmares and I don't have words to describe it. I can't believe that it's happening." Pardo, a former Boy Scout and Navy veteran, began his law enforcement career in the 1970s with the Florida Highway Patrol, graduating at the top of his class at the academy. But he was fired from that agency in 1979 for falsifying traffic tickets. He was soon hired by the police department in Sweetwater, a small city in Miami-Dade County. In 1981, Pardo was one of four Sweetwater officers charged with brutality, but the cases were dismissed. He was fired four years later after he flew to the Bahamas to testify at the trial of a Sweetwater colleague who was accused of drug smuggling. Pardo lied, telling the court they were international undercover agents. Then over a 92-day period in early 1986, Pardo committed a series of robberies, killing six men and three women. He took photos of the victims and recounted some details in his diary, which was found along with newspaper clippings about the murders. Pardo was linked to the killings after using credit cards stolen from the victims. www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/11/former-florida-cop-to-be-executed-for-murdering-people/
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 11, 2012 11:31:36 GMT -6
"Pardo was dubbed the "Death Row Romeo" after he corresponded with dozens of women and persuaded many to send him money." I hope he played them all (and they thought they were the only one he was involoved with lol) Wonder if they drop by here?
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 11, 2012 12:44:54 GMT -6
"Pardo was dubbed the "Death Row Romeo" after he corresponded with dozens of women and persuaded many to send him money." I hope he played them all (and they thought they were the only one he was involoved with lol) Wonder if they drop by here? Imagine if they shared they're deep dark fantasies of him with each other.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2012 16:11:29 GMT -6
1 hour to go,Is it still on..
what a dumbass,using the credit card of his victim,he used to be a cop, he should of known better A big next.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2012 16:13:02 GMT -6
"Pardo was dubbed the "Death Row Romeo" after he corresponded with dozens of women and persuaded many to send him money." I hope he played them all (and they thought they were the only one he was involoved with lol) Wonder if they drop by here? Imagine if they shared they're deep dark fantasies of him with each other. A scumpal catfight,I would love to see that.. ;D
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 11, 2012 16:16:21 GMT -6
Last meal if anyones interested. Cuban-style last meal: rice, beans, pork chunks, platanos, avocado/tomato w/ aceite, pumpkin pie, Cuban coffee
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Post by rayozz on Dec 11, 2012 18:23:05 GMT -6
Good range of tastes in that meal. Had to look up what platanos and aceite were!
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 11, 2012 18:33:50 GMT -6
Good range of tastes in that meal. Had to look up what platanos and aceite were! So did I ! Scotus denied by the way.
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Post by rayozz on Dec 11, 2012 19:01:44 GMT -6
Pardo has been executed.
Florida has carried out its last execution of 2012 with the lethal injection of former police officer Manuel Pardo Jr. for the 1986 killings of nine people in Miami. About an hour before the execution was scheduled to begin, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denied an appeal for a stay of execution for Pardo. There was a delay in the execution as the U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court’s ruling, but an hour after the scheduled execution time, the high court also declined that appeal.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 11, 2012 19:29:56 GMT -6
Some last words: "Airborne forever. I love you Michi baby." In reference to his daughter . Good Riddance
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Post by starbux on Dec 11, 2012 23:29:59 GMT -6
Dead . Although he did some good by killing criminals
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Post by rayozz on Dec 12, 2012 1:42:09 GMT -6
Dead . Although he did some good by killing criminals Self serving for his own drug selling purposes and monetary gain. Probably worse (if possible), considering his professional policing skills.
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Post by The Tipsy Broker on Dec 12, 2012 3:07:56 GMT -6
I dont understand this "did good by killing criminals" bit. Here in britain The Kray twins were convicted of murdering two known criminals. Did they do good? No, I would have hanged the pair of them.
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Post by whitediamonds on Dec 12, 2012 8:53:04 GMT -6
Dead . Although he did some good by killing criminals "He" did some good? Humans act with free will creating "their own" destiny.
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 12, 2012 11:40:40 GMT -6
Dead . Although he did some good by killing criminals He had no right to murder them. What they did wasn't death penalty eligible. Besides no one, not even a cop (especially), has the right to take the law into their own hands. Edit to add: Besides he wasn't doing it to rid the earth of drug dealers, he was doing it for cash gain. Was he any better than those he murdered?
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Post by zd3925 on Dec 12, 2012 13:09:20 GMT -6
Adiosdirtbag
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Post by moonlight on Dec 12, 2012 13:36:47 GMT -6
Mixed feelings. On the one hand what he'd committed was a clear felony act. He had to pay for his deed like any other offender. However, one has to bear in mind none of his victims were choir boys. His case is therefore one of tragedy. Unlike other executions that took place until now I'm NOT glad and joyous for his death. I rather feel sad for his unfortunate lot of getting into trouble from the beginning. Therefore my heart is with Manuel Pardo's family members whom I consider as MVS. I have no sentiments for none of the family members of his 9 victims. Anyone of those "victims" who were gunned down by Manuel Pardo were scummies one by one.
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