Reader Spotlight: Resident Speaks Out About 1980 Murder

On Friday, March 1, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a death warrant ordering Elisa Nelson convicted killer Larry Eugene Mann, 59, be excuted by lethal injection on Wednesday, April 10 at 6 p.m.

The ten-year-old was found bludgeoned to death in 1980 and investigators eventually arrested and charged Mann in the case.

Although the sentence is set to be carried out in a little over a month, one local resident commented her concerns.

Diana Smith wrote,

"Why does it take so long to put a guilty man to death in this brutal attack on a child? We have to pay every day he remains in prison."

What do you think, East Lake? 

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