[Deathpenalty] death penalty news---FLA.

[Rick Halperin]

Jan. 23



FLORIDA:

Court upholds former Eau Claire County man's death penalty



A former Eau Claire County man sentenced to death for the murders of 2 women 
lost his appeal to the Florida Supreme Court.

Nearly 15 years ago, Bill Marquardt was convicted of stabbing and shooting a 
woman and her adult daughter to death in Florida. Before that, he was also 
charged in the stabbing and shooting death of his mother in Chippewa County, 
but a jury found him not guilty.

In 2012, Marquardt was sentenced to death for the Florida murders. He recently 
appealed his conviction and sentence to death on 5 grounds.

Florida's Supreme Court rejected his appeal on Thursday.

A date has not been scheduled for his execution.

(source: WQOW news)