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Governor signs death warrant for killer-rapist

 
Published Nov. 25, 2014

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed the death warrant for Johnny Shane Kormondy, 42, who killed a Pensacola banker in 1993 and repeatedly raped his wife. The couple had been returning home from her 20th high school reunion. Kormondy is set to die on Jan. 15, 2015. In a summary of the case, the governor's office said that Kormondy shot Gary McAdams in the back of the head, and had recruited accomplices in the crime, provided transportation and cased the neighborhood prior to the crime. Kormondy also threatened to kill witnesses who testified at his trial, including Mrs. McAdams, if he were released from prison. Kormondy was convicted of first-degree murder and three counts of sexual battery. The jury recommended a death sentence by a vote of 8 to 4 and he received life sentences on each of the sexual battery counts. Kormondy has spent half of his life on Death Row at Florida State Prison in Starke.