Miami, FL – Supreme Court Again Refused To Block Grossman Execution

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    Miami, FL – The U.S. Supreme Court again refused this afternoon to block the execution of Martin Edward Grossman.

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    Grossman is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Florida State Prison near Starke.

    Grossman was 19 when prosecutors say he beat 26-year-old Margaret “Peggy” Park with a heavy flashlight and then shot her in the head.

    Park had happened upon Grossman and another teen with a stolen gun in the woods of a nature preserve near Tampa on Dec. 13, 1984.

    Peggy Park’s mother, Margaret, and her two surviving children plan to witness the execution. Margaret Park said Grossman’s death is “long overdue.”


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    heartbreaking

    a yid
    a yid
    14 years ago

    after all the work put in
    all we can say is
    HOW SAD

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    that’s almost 26 years in prison so far for him.

    punch
    punch
    14 years ago

    please don’t stop to say tehilim.
    get off the internet now and say afew kapitlech for his zechis.

    illdeals
    illdeals
    14 years ago

    Sad as it may be, justice is being served. This is getting a just and deserved punishment. Although he “found G-d” in prison, and I do believe that he may have but death row is definitely a very easy place to “find G-d” cuz when u know the only way ur going to be leaving is in a body bag, there isn’t much else u can find.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    we still hope that not

    OY VEY
    OY VEY
    14 years ago

    NEBACH! HASHEM YERACHEIM!

    NeverGiveUp
    NeverGiveUp
    14 years ago

    אפילו חרב חדה מונחת על צוארו של אדם אל יתייאש

    torah yid
    torah yid
    14 years ago

    one who kills a gentile is chayav misah beyedei shomayim (see kesef mishnah rambam retzicha 3,4) maybe this is the misah beyedei shomayim that he deserves, and nothing we’re doing is helping.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Lets Break Him Out!

    yiden
    yiden
    14 years ago

    it will not happen

    Hoply
    Hoply
    14 years ago

    BS”D By the Grace of G-d
    Dear Parks Family,
    I am terribly sorry for the loss of your beloved daughter. It sounds like a very tragic situation. Please understand that what Martin Grossman did was not premeditated. What the Governor of Florida is about to do, G-d forbid, and what the citizens of the state of Florida and our nation are about to do, G-d forbid, is premeditated murder. May heaven save us. Please do not add more darkness to what is already dark. You have a choice now to increase in light and to honor the memory of your daughter/sister and husband/father. Please choose wisely and do not participate and contribute to the murder of another fellow human being, who also happens to be the son and descendent of Avraham (Abraham), Yitzchak (Isaac) and Yakov (Jacob)! He is clearly remorseful and has returned to the heritage of his Fathers and Mothers and has been meeting with his Rabbi for over 15 years!
    Please do not participate in another murder, G-d forbid!

    Yudi
    Yudi
    14 years ago

    Of course they ”forgot” to mention that she was a park ranger, murderd in cold blood while doing her job. What if she was your mother?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    What is sad is that Mrs. Park has had to wait 25 years for this day to come.

    to number 5
    to number 5
    14 years ago

    The man has mental illness, a bit of retardation. Was refused appropriate services. If I remember correctly Hitler YM”S also wanted to kill the retarded population. He had a botched trial and they refused him a retrial. Before you Announce Justice is being served, know the facts.
    And what if in a few years they find a different person was the killer, like his then friend. What do you do then. I am a republican. And most of my views are right. Whe it comes to the death penalty – am totally negative as there were many cases that were accused ‘criminal’ was executed, and then they found the person inncent. That is something that is irrepairable.

    pro capital punishment
    pro capital punishment
    14 years ago

    with all due respect, as much as i would hate to see him put to death it’s not like halachah is against capital punishment. not only do we administer the death penalty for murder but we also kill people for being mechalel shabbos as well as countless other aveiros. it’s not like the death penalty is un-jewish, it’s very jewish! as it happens to be in this specific case martin grossman in not chayev misa for many reasons, however, it’s not like we are against the idea. in this respect, halacha shtims perfectly with american law. any liberal who is beshitah against capital punishment because it’s not moral is the only one acting un-jewish. again, he does not deserve to die and we must do all we can to prevent his death, but that doesn’t mean we are in the same boat as all those libs against the death penalty.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    If he has an IQ of 77, how all of a sudden does he understand that he is Jewish and needs to keep mitzvos? Sadly, I think we are being used by a sociopath. And why would he want to stay in prison which for a practicing Jew could be a fate worse than death? I did sign the petition, but I have to admit I did so knowing the chances were nil. Now, I regret doing it. Let justice be carried out and let his neshomo have a rest.

    Lodzker
    Lodzker
    14 years ago

    What ever will be, Baruch Dayan Emes mamish.

    time to move on
    time to move on
    14 years ago

    While it’s commendable to see that most are against death in many ways, (especially if a yehud,)these cases are never black and white. These are truly rough times. May the light of Torah and mitzvot always guide you. Find inner strength to fight off despair.
    There still is work to do in future.(like fighting haman with all our strength)

    Loshon Hora
    Loshon Hora
    14 years ago

    I heard sometime back, that one time the death penalty failed & the guy didn’t die. The law was he could only be put to death once so he was vindicated & sent out of jail too. I think he commited crimes again, and was eventualy executed.
    Let us hope if he goes on the chair he survives.
    Say Tehilim.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    What if Martin Grossman’s name was Leroy Jackson or Jose Hernandez with exactly the same story would we all be saying the same thing????????

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I think the governor has no heart after so many pleas from jews and gentils let’s vote him out!!

    A. Nuran
    A. Nuran
    14 years ago

    He is receiving a punishment in line with his crimes and the prevailing legal tradition of the State of Florida. It is sad when things come to this, but that is the law and its execution here and now.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    we are all yidin maminim bnei maminim we all beleive that evryting whats hapning in this world is what hashem is doing and also we beleive that avry person ho is involvd in his exetution will be puinished badly from hasem

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Well now you have to hope that they won’t be able to find the vein.
    Also these days there are fewer and fewer doctors who want to have any part in lethal injection, since after all their medical training was to sustain life and not to end it. There are many problems with the lethal injection method but nobody wants to bother investing the time to find a better way… not exactly nobel-worthy research.

    un-real comments on a jewish site
    un-real comments on a jewish site
    14 years ago

    The comments in this matter some people post here, are un-real,probably not misheluni, or part of eiriv rav, the ones that were always happy with our brothers nefilah, true brothers stick up for each other and feal each others pain, even on the other side of the world a brother we never got to know, makes no difference to us, and of course in such matter where he was a shoigeg, I would say he’s a kurben tzibur, let’s hope to hashem, we will all be forgiven our sins with scare itself, and let him go together with all of us towards moshiach very soon,

    leo
    leo
    14 years ago

    be mispalel

    Y Ungar
    Y Ungar
    14 years ago

    B”H that is what he deserves and that is the rotzon Hashem. All this stupid shtadlonus should stop. He is trash that happens to be Jewish. Imagine if the president would block every execution of a shvartrze because he is a shvartze. I read allot about his case and ” Velaaretz lo yechupar ki im bedam shofcho. See also what the Rambam says in hilchos rotzeach. He is the lowest of the lowest.

    Brains 4 a reason
    Brains 4 a reason
    14 years ago

    Just received this response from the Gov of FL:

    Thank you for contacting me and sharing your concerns about the execution of Martin Grossman.
    On December 13, 1984, Mr. Grossman violated the terms of his probation by leaving Pasco County and having a stolen firearm in his possession. In a routine stop, Florida Fish and Wildlife Officer Margaret Park found the weapon. When she reached for the radio in her patrol car to report him, Mr. Grossman attacked her with her own large flashlight, beating her over the head and shoulders 20 to 30 times. When Officer Park tried to fight back, Mr. Grossman took her .357 Magnum revolver and shot her in the back of the head, killing her.
    Mr. Grossman took several carefully planned steps to cover up this horrible crime. The weapon was buried, and Mr. Grossman attempted to burn his clothes and shoes, which were later disposed of in a nearby lake. The following day, Mr. Grossman thoroughly cleaned the van and changed its tires to mislead law enforcement.

    Continued in next post….

    Brains 4 a reason
    Brains 4 a reason
    14 years ago

    Officer Park’s autopsy revealed lacerations on top of her head, hemorrhaging inside the scalp and extensive fracturing of the skull. All of these injuries resulted from Mr. Grossman’s attack. The facts of this crime clearly meet the definition of heinous, atrocious and cruel, and his actions afterward demonstrate his well-reasoned attempts to cover it up.

    The courts have fully reviewed Mr. Grossman’s legal claims, and his conviction and sentence have been affirmed by both the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Based on the facts and exhaustion of legal proceedings, and in accordance with Florida law, I signed his death warrant on January 12, 2010.

    Thank you again for taking the time to contact me.

    What a shame!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Where is Grossman’s mother? How come we don’t hear about her?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    All the frum jews in florida should gather outside the prison and outside the governors office

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    If he gets executed, who is going to say kaddish for him? Is he allowed to be buried according to Jewish law, with tahara and burial in a Jewish cemetry?

    OMG
    OMG
    14 years ago

    I am sad to see so many of my brothers decided to close their eyes to the cries of our brother, yes the executioner is standing above our brother Grossman and with a feverish appetite rubbing his hand and licking his lips in anticipation, any person who is willing to be an executioner needs to be look on with suspicion, in particular when they hide behind religion. While I believe in justices, but I cry for the soul of Mr. Grossman and at the same time I cry for the souls of our brothers who turned a blind eye or the ones who actually cheered this life taking, for your personal amusement, you are not related to the victim, for you it is a sport. For me it is heartbreaking and literally I feel that I failed as my brother’s keeper.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    25 minutes left, it’s over folks.

    A mother
    A mother
    14 years ago

    I’m crying. For both victims & their families. I wish there was more we could do before 6 PM.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    This is so sad. I hope Agudath and everyone else who is troubled by this execution learns a lesson and realize that the time to oppose the death penalty is not to wait until a jewish man is facing execution. I hope Agudath and everyone else who ralied around Martin Grossman will rally around the next person who faces execution in the u.s. (other than convicted terrorists) regardless of the person’s religion, color or nationality.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Please say Tehillim for him. His Hebrew name is:

    מיכאל יחיאל בן מרים שרה – גראסמאן

    My wife (at home) has j sat down all our children and explained to them that a Yid is about to be (ח”ו) executed (Hashem yishereinu), and they are all saying Tehilim for him. I would suggest everyone do the same, because besides that it might help and your Tehillim might break the midas hadin and in this choidesh Adar it can be “venahapoch hu” and the din could be nishapoch; besides that you can teach your children real ahavas Yisroel that you really care for another Yid.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Who is with him? He shouldn’t have to die alone. My heart aches for him, I feel sick.

    glatekup
    glatekup
    14 years ago

    it looks like it is all over. just received an e-mail from the governor and i believe that all those who sent him received the same. there he explains why is about to execute martin.

    OMG
    OMG
    14 years ago

    Yitgaddal veyitqaddash shmeh rabba, Be alma di vra khir’uteh, veyamlikh malkhuteh, behayekhon uvyomekhon, uvkhaye dekhol bet Yisrael, be agala uvizman qariv ve imru amen, yehe shmeh rabba mevarakh le alam ul alme almaya, Yitbarakh veyishtabbakh veyitpaar veyitromam veyitnasse veyithaddar veyit alle veyithallal, shmeh dequdsha, brikh hu. Le ella min kol birkhat, veshirata tushbehata venehemata daamiran bealma ve imru amen,
    Titqabbal tzlothon uva uthon, dekhol bet yisrael qodam avuhon di bishmayya, ve imru amen, Yehe shlama rabba min shmayya, vehayyim tovim, lanu ulkhol ammo yisrael ve imru amen, ose shalom bimromav, hu berakhamav ya ase shalom alenu, ve al kol ammo yisrael, ve imru amen

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Rabosai, this is a tragedy. We must do all that we can to prevent the legalization of drugs that Obama and Schumer and all the Democrats want in NY and in all states. We must not allow any other young confused Yid to fall into the hands of the menuval politicians who want our children to kill their neshamos with drugs. Say tehillim and let us do what we can do to prevent the menuval Democrats from legalizing drugs in the USA.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    The tragedy of this sentence is that it is being carried out on the Catholic Day of Mardi Gras which is the traditional day of murdering Yidden. This must be a gazera b’dei shomayim to this very day. HYA.

    Ah Bandeh Lamdunim
    Ah Bandeh Lamdunim
    14 years ago

    The Kesef Mishneh is in regard to a Ger Toshav, which is inexistent today.

    Even according to the poskim who are of the minority opinion there’s a issur m’dina – apart from dina d’malchusa – (See Y”D S’ 158, the darkei moshe ha’oruch, sha”ch nd nekudos hakesef), there’s no oinesh.

    Therefore the executioner, and all those responsible for the premeditated cold blooded murder of a ben yisroel, violated the Noahide prohibition of murder and are chayev miseh.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I said tehillim. What a tragedy for Am Yisrael.

    If only we had been learning Torah on that day in 1984. It is our fault that Am Yisrael falls. Chazal teach that murder happens due to weakened Torah study. This is why the Gedolim are so chashuv. Yidden increase your Torah, Tefillah and Tzeddukah.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Just remember: the only people who will be out there protesting this execution. The only ones who have taken time, effort, money and pain to try and stop this (aside from Jewish people like some here) are the liberals so many of you despise.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Maaminim Bnei maaminim, this is just to remind us that we are in Galus.
    We are too snug in this Galus of America, but the fact remains that we are
    governed by Chukei Sedom, Goiyishe Kep.
    This is obviously a Gzeira Min Hashamayim and a wake up call to all of us.
    Let us do Teshuva and pray for Moshiach Tzidkeinu who should take us
    out of this galus, Only the Bais Din Shel Maale, can mete out a fair judgement
    where every aspect of the sinners situation and condition is considered,
    prior, during and after the crime. Hashem, our kind father, always accepts
    Teshuva, because only he knows whether our Teshuva is sincere.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Obama and menuval Democrats want to legalize marijuana. Schumer wants needle exchanges. Mexicans are selling $10 baggies of heroin to kill our children. Obama and the Democrats want these drug dealers to become citizens with no exception for drug criminals. THIS IS THE CURRENT CRIME THAT IS HAPPENING. We must prevent the menuval Democrats from causing another murder.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    He was just killed less than 90 seconds ago.

    Importent please read to the end
    Importent please read to the end
    14 years ago

    All I can say is nebech yes nebech for Martin grosman But The Bigger NEBECH are the blogers who seem to be playing god like the one who decided it’s a just punidhmant or the other guy who thinks it’s missa biday shomayim only god knows that and to The guy wig thinks it’s the Parkers right to have him executed well I can assure u it won’t bring there sister / doughter back and niether will it change there life any except that the blood of anothere will be on them yes I understand there emotion but that dosent make it the right thing it’s an emotinal reaction not a logical and to those that keep asking would I feel the same about a goy first off I’d feel bad but no of course not the same how can u compare a yid to a goy have we fallan on our heads a guy is moridin vein maalin we have a yidishe neshamah chelek elokay mima’al they have a nishmas habehami no that dose not meen we can mistreet theam be rude we have a Torah and halachos and we must abide by them and be a light onto the nation but to think we are equal is the real nebech my bracha Is u should be zoche to apriciate your hertiage as much as mr grosman has learnd to and remeber even a Jew who sins is still s Jew thanks