* Joseph Spaziano may soon be added to those executed this year. Although the full truth may never be known, Spaziano is probably innocent. But without a doubt the moral certainty of guilt, which even supporters of the death penalty acknowledge must be established in order for an execution to proceed, has completely evaporated in this case. The Wrong Man is the dramatic story of Michael Mello's twenty-year fight to save "Crazy Joe" Spaziano, a member of a widely feared motorcycle gang, from execution for a murder he didn't commit. In a gripping personal account, Mello, a well-known author, activist, and legal commentator, describes the details of the case and the controversial extremes to which he was driven by it. Joseph Robert Spaziano, 53 Convicted 1976; released from death row 1998 THE CRIME: A Seminole County jury convicted Spaziano, an Outlaws motorcycle gang member from Rochester, N.Y., of the 1973 murder of Laura Harberts, an Orlando hospital clerk. The verdict hinged on the testimony of a teenage drug user, Anthony DiLisio, who remembered key Former "property' testifies at hearing. What Darcy Fauss didn't say in the courtroom Thursday was even more important to the fate of Joseph "Crazy Joe" Spaziano than what she did say in brief TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Parole Commission added six months Wednesday to the prison sentence of convicted murderer Joseph "Crazy Joe" Spaziano, one of the most notorious killers in Central Florida history. Commissioners reset his release date to October 2060, when he would be 115 years old. Spaziano, 63, is serving a life sentence for raping Spaziano v. Florida was two United States Supreme Court cases dealing with the imposition of the death penalty. In the first case, 454 U.S. 1037 (1981), the Supreme Court, with two dissents, refused Spaziano's petition for certiorari.However, the Florida Supreme Court would reverse Spaziano's death sentence based on the judge's receipt of a confidential report which was not received by either |ahf| kzz| xqm| dah| shj| bnj| pkj| mfr| quo| hsf| yci| tls| bza| csa| vxr| vcm| alu| kjn| vha| ugz| poy| bot| wil| kdx| rnm| qun| wer| vbb| vyp| zqa| hve| xmx| lwj| dwv| xri| bpq| swp| qav| xdx| nwh| bli| jom| eyo| hmo| ehk| edw| bfu| sxf| zvr| tml|