Florida executes 100th death row inmate. Who's on the list from Volusia, Flagler counties?
Thursday's execution of convicted murderer Donald Dillbeck marked Florida's 100th since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Florida has been one of the most active states in carrying out executions since the reinstatement.
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There are currently 298 people on Florida's Death Row: 11 of them are connected to Volusia County; one is connected to Flagler County.
Kenneth Quince
Current age: 64
Date of offense: Dec. 28, 1979
Crime(s): Convicted of first-degree felony murder, burglary of an occupied dwelling
Quince, also known as Rashikh Abdul Hakim, pleaded guilty to the crimes that resulted in the death of 82-year-old Frances Bowdoin of Daytona Beach. The sexual battery charge was dismissed.
He was sentenced to death on Oct. 21, 1980.
Konstantin Fotopoulos
Current age: 63
Date of offense: Oct. 20, 1989, and Nov. 4, 1989
Crime(s): Convicted of multiple offenses including two counts of first-degree murder for which he received the death sentence on Nov. 1, 1990
Fotopoulos and his coconspirator, Deidre Hunt, lured 19-year-old Kevin Ramsey to an isolated area where Fotopoulos told Hunt that she would be killed if she didn't kill Ramsey. Fotopoulos filmed Hunt's murder of Ramsey.
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The wealthy Daytona Beach businessman then ordered Hunt to hire someone to kill his wife. The hired gun, 18-year-old Bryan Chase, broke into the Fotopoulos home where he shot Fotopoulos' wife.
Fotopoulos, whose wife ultimately survived and remarried, then fatally shot Chase.
James Hunter
Current age: 52
Date of offense: Sept. 17, 1992
Crime(s): Convicted of multiple offenses including first-degree murder during the committing of a felony for which he received the death sentence on Aug. 18, 1993
In September 1992, Hunter and three other men approached four males outside of a Daytona Beach store and robbed them. Hunter shot each of the males as they lay face down on the sidewalk, resulting in the death of Wayne Simpson.
Enoch Hall
Current age: 54
Date of offense: June 25, 2008
Crime(s): Convicted of first-degree murder
In June 2008, Hall, a convicted rapist serving a life sentence at Tomoka Correctional Institution, fatally stabbed Donna Fitzgerald, a corrections officer. Hall was sentenced to death in January 2010.
Bobby Raleigh
Current age: 48
Date of offense: June 5, 1994
Crime(s): Convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for which he received the death sentence on Feb. 16, 1996
Raleigh pleaded guilty in the shooting deaths of DeLeon Springs resident Douglas Cox and Cox's roommate, Timothy Eberlin.
Raleigh also was charged in the 1994 killing of Laralee Spear, but the charge was later dropped, and Raleigh is no longer a suspect in the case.
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James Guzman
Current age: 58
Date of offense: Dec. 13, 1991
Crime(s): Convicted of first-degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon
Guzman has been convicted and sentenced to death three times, most recently in April 2016, in the murder of David Colvin, a 48-year-old businessman from Virginia, with a Samurai sword.
His sentence was overturned again in 2018, so the State Attorney's Office is pursuing the case a fourth time.
Paul Brown
Current age: 55
Date of offense: Nov. 5, 1992
Crime(s): Convicted of first-degree murder, armed robbery with a deadly weapon and armed burglary of a dwelling
Brown was found guilty in the stabbing death of Roger Hensley and sentenced to death on Nov. 7, 1996.
Troy Victorino and Jerone Hunter
Current ages: 46 and 36
Date of offense: Aug. 5/6, 2004
Crime(s): Convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder, cruelty to animals and armed burglary of a dwelling
Victorino and coconspirator Hunter were previously convicted and sentenced to death in the case commonly referred to as the Xbox murders, or the Deltona massacre, for the slayings of Erin Belanger, Jonathan Gleason, Roberto Gonzalez, Michelle Nathan, Francisco Ayo-Roman and Anthony Vega.
The sentences were overturned in 2016, and a new penalty-phase trial is scheduled to start April 10.
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Joseph Jordan
Current age: 52
Date of offense: June 24, 2009
Crime(s): Convicted of first-degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon
Jordan, whose death sentence is under review, was found guilty in September 2013 in the killing of his employer and Edgewater roommate Keith Cope.
Christian Cruz
Current age: 29
Date of offense: April 26, 2013
Crime(s): Convicted of first-degree murder, burglary while armed, robbery with a firearm and kidnapping while committing/facilitating the commission of a felony
In December 2021, Cruz was sentenced to death a second time in the murder of the wrongly-targeted 25-year-old Christopher Jemery.
Louis Gaskin
Current age: 55
Date of offense: Dec. 20, 1989
Crime(s): Convicted of two counts of first-degree murder
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Gaskin dressed up as a ninja and fatally shot Robert and Georgette Sturmfels at their Palm Coast home.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: On death row: Who's awaiting execution in Volusia, Flagler?
