Darden executed
NZPA-Reuter ; Starke, Florida The convicted murderer.- Willie Jasper Darden, has died in Floridals electric chair at the State prison in Starke despite, an international campaignto save his life. >' I Darden, who was 5(4, had (been the subject of}a campaign by Amnesty, Andrei Sakharov and Pope John Paul, who contend he was the victim bf racial prejudice. Convicted of the murder in September. 1973, bf a white Lakeland, Florida, businessman, Darden, } a black man who steadfastly maintained his innocence, had been ,bn Florida’s death row longer than all but one man. He had survived six previous f death warrants signed by i the State's governors, f /*• His time fan out within the last week, after rejection by the (United States Supreme Court and the State's top court of further stayS of execution. I (
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Press, 18 March 1988, Page 8
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