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Robert Glen Coe, 43, a convicted child rapist and killer is closer to becoming the first person executed in the state in 40 years.  A federal appeals court lifted the stay of execution.  The latest ruling in the legal death struggle, that has gone on for 19 years, could result in Coe being executed by lethal injection 1 a.m. Thursday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institute.  In 1981, Coe was sentenced to death for the kidnap, rape and murder of 8 year old Cary Ann Medlin.  The conviction was overturned in

Andre Brigham Young was convicted of five different rapes over a 31 year period.  Today the Supreme Court agreed to consider squelching his attempt to get out from under his designation in Washington State as a sexually violent predator who should stay locked up even after he served his prison sentence.  The justices, granting an appeal by state officials, said they would review his fight against how Washington’s Sexually Violent Predator Statute applies to him.  State officials sought to have him committed as a sexually violent predator a day before

Rodney Kutzli, 35, of Clearwater, was arrested in 1989 on charges of sexually molesting an 8 year old girl.  He was convicted of attempted sexual battery on a child and handling and fondling and sentenced to 20 years in prison.  After his release in 1997, he was ordered to serve 10 years’ probation, according to court records.  Kutzli went driving recently and followed a 12 year old girl home from school and tried to lure her into his car.  But, because under Florida law, the felony charge against enticing or

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A state Supreme Court judge in Mineola ruled earlier this year that real estate agents and homesellers have no obligation to disclose the presence of a sex offender in the neighborhood wherethey are selling houses. As far as sex offenders in the community, it is the responsibility of thebuyer to determine if any convicted sex criminals live nearby but it is not always a simple task.Police departments in Nassau and Suffolk counties have procedures for disseminating thisinformation but they involve filling out request forms to review the local directory

Almicar Jose Hernandez Pacheco, 18, pleaded guilty to a four count indictment charging him with forcibly sodomizing a 3 year old boy.  A relative of the child saw an injury and took him to a hospital emergency room and Pacheco was arrested on January 6th, 1999.  The Brentwood man was charged with sodomy and sexual abuse, first-degree and second-degree aggravated sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.  He faced a maximum of 25 years in prison if he had not accepted the plea, according to defense attorney Bruce

A Pakistan court judge ruled that Javed Iqbal, 42 be executed the way he killed 100 children by strangulation and dismemberment with his remains dissolved in acid.  Under Pakistani law, family members are allowed to have convicted murders of their family members die in the same manner as they were killed.