Reprieve for killer
NZPA-AP Starke A Federal Appeal Court has granted a reprieve to a convicted killer, Alvin Bernard Ford, just 12 hours before he was scheduled to die yesterday in Florida’s electric chair for the murder of a policeman. The state of Florida is contesting the stay of execution, ordered by a threejudge panel of the eleventh United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Ford, aged 30, had been scheduled to die for the July 21, 1974, slaying of a fort Lauderdale policeman, Dimitri Walter Ilyankoff, shot while answering a robbery call at a restaurant. Ford’s first death warrant was blocked by the Atlanta Appeals Court in December, 1981,just 13 hours before he was to die in the electric chair. The state had filed a challenge to the stay with the United States Supreme Court in advance of the Appeal Court’s latest decision. The Atlanta Court’s majority opinion cited two grounds for staying the execution—Ford’s insanity claim and his challenge to the constitutionality of the Florida death penalty law.
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