Black Drug Pusher Finally Set to Die for Pipe Bomb Which Killed White State Trooper

WPTV
January 22, 2014

Florida State Trooper Jimmy Fulford
Florida State Trooper Jimmy Fulford. Fulford’s injuries were beyond belief. He suffered massive trauma to the head, chest, pelvis, arms, and legs. His right leg was missing, and his left leg was nearly severed. Several fingers had been blown away, and, according to the medical examiner, “the frames of his eyeglasses had been driven into the bones of his face and head by the force of the blast.”

A South Florida drug trafficker convicted of killing a state trooper with a pipe bomb is once again scheduled to die.

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday set Paul Augustus Howell’s new execution date for Feb. 26, according to a letter Scott sent to the warden of Florida State Prison.

Paul Augustus Howell, a South Florida drug trafficker convicted of killing a state trooper with a pipe bomb, is once again scheduled to die.
Paul Augustus Howell, In 1992, Howell was sentenced to death for the capital murder of Jimmy Fulford.

Scott signed a death warrant for Howell last January, but the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the execution. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi certified on Wednesday that the stay had been lifted.

Howell was convicted of killing Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Jimmy Fulford with a bomb placed inside a gift-wrapped microwave oven 22 years ago. Authorities said the booby-trapped package was intended to kill two women in the Panhandle town of Marianna because they knew too much about a drug-related murder in Broward County.

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