The Nation - News from March 6, 1985
A federal judge granted an indefinite stay for one of two killers scheduled to die today in Florida’s electric chair as attorneys for the second man took his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings stayed the execution of William Middleton Jr. to allow time for a hearing on whether Middleton’s civil rights were violated. Middleton, convicted of the shotgun-murder of a Miami woman, had been scheduled to die along with John Paul Witt, sentenced for the abduction and murder of an 11-year-old Tampa boy.
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