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Rendell Signs Execution Warrant for Allentown Serial Killer |
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HARRISBURG | Gov. Ed Rendell on Monday signed an execution warrant for Harvey Robinson, who raped and murdered a girl and two women in Allentown in the early 1990s and was thought to be one of the youngest serial killers in the nation's history.
Robinson, now 31, is scheduled to die by lethal injection April 4.
He was convicted and sentenced to death in November 1994 for raping and murdering Joan Burghardt, 29; Charlotte Schmoyer, 15; and Jessica Jean Fortney, 47. All were killed on the city's east side.
In 1999, Robinson's new lawyers appealed, saying his former lawyers failed to present evidence that could have allowed him to escape the death penalty.
Two years later, Lehigh County Judge Edward D. Reibman upheld Robinson's three murder convictions but threw out the death penalties imposed in the killings of Burghardt in August 1992 and Schmoyer in June 1993.
Reibman said the trial judge gave improper instructions to jurors about how they could consider the multiple murders as an aggravating factor.
A resentencing hearing was held in 2003 in which Robinson's court-appointed lawyer, Philip D. Lauer of Easton, said Robinson was deprived of a fair trial when he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to the three separate death sentences.
In 2005, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld Robinson's death sentence in Fortney's July 1993 killing and his first-degree murder convictions in the deaths of Burghardt and Schmoyer.
Robinson was 19 when he was convicted of the killings. The three cases were tried together in Lehigh County Court, and experts said DNA linked Robinson to all of the crimes. A fourth victim, who was beaten and raped, survived and helped police apprehend him.
Besides the execution warrant for Robinson, who remains on death row at the state prison at Graterford, Rendell signed warrants of execution for Michael B. Singley and Tedor Davido.
Singley, 29, pleaded guilty to the November 1998 murder of Christine Rohrer of Chambersburg, Franklin County, in August 2000. He was also convicted in the murder of James Gilliam but was sentenced to life imprisonment in that case. His execution is set for April 6.
Davido, 30, was found guilty of raping and killing his girlfriend, 20-year-old Angelina Taylor, in December 2001. He is scheduled for execution on April 11.
Rendell has signed 51 death warrants since taking office in 2003.
The last person to be executed in Pennsylvania was Gary Heidnik in July 1999. He was convicted of murdering two women he had imprisoned in his Philadelphia home.
Since Pennsylvania switched from electrocution to lethal injection in 1990, there have been three executions. |
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