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Cop turned serial killer who preyed on 'scum of the earth' is denied appeal and set to be executed next week

By DANIEL MILLER
PUBLISHED: 09:46, 5 December 2012

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  • Manuel Pardo, 56, ripped-off drug dealers before killing anyone who could implicate him
  • Later dubbed the 'Death Row Romeo' after scamming vulnerable women out of thousands of dollars
  • Florida Supreme Court denies claims he was insane at the time of the murders
An ex-cop, languishing on death row for a string of murders committed during the 1980s, is set to be executed next week after his latest appeal was denied. Manuel Pardo, 56, and his partner Rolando Garcia committed nine murders as they ripped-off drug dealers before killing anyone capable of implicating them in the crimes. At his trial in 1988, Pardo went against the advice of his lawyers and confessed saying his victims were drug dealers who 'have no right to live' and that he was ridding the streets of the 'scum of the earth'.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-scum-earth-denied-appeal-executed-week.html
 
Ex-Sweetwater cop executed by lethal injection at 7:47 p.m.

STARKE -- Twenty-four years after he urged a jury to give him a “glorious” death, Miami serial killer Manuel Pardo shut his eyes, yawned and fell into an eternal slumber, but not before delivering one last defiant homage to his military past.

“Airborne forever,” the former U.S. Navy veteran said, adding an ode to his daughter. “I love you, Michi baby.”

And so the former Sweetwater cop, who shot and killed nine people during a series of robberies of mostly drug dealers in 1986, was executed, pronounced dead at 7:47 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison.

Before Pardo was strapped to the gurney, he issued a neat handwritten letter, accepting responsibility for killing six men — but no women, he insisted — as part of his “war against men who were trafficking in narcotics.”

But the nephew of Fara Quintero, one of three women slain by Pardo and another man, insisted Pardo was “no soldier.”

“But rather a disturbed man whose hatred for mankind knew no mercy,” nephew Frank Judd told reporters afterward. He called the execution “mild justice” for taking his beloved aunt.

Pardo’s death by lethal injection caps the bloody and bizarre saga of a man who joined the military and law enforcement before he embarked on a killing spree in 1986 that left nine dead. His victims were mostly drug dealers, people who crossed him and potential witnesses.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/11/3136913/florida-readies-to-execute-former.html#storylink=cpy
 
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