On Deck

Posted Oct 25, 2006 by Howard Altman

Updated Oct 25, 2006 at 10:21 PM

9:15 p.m. – Several dozen television journalists are sitting in satellite trucks, putting together their 11 p.m. packages. Waiting in an empty van at the entrance to the media area sits a corrections officer. It’s his job to make sure the area is secure until all the journalists go home.
In a few hours, this scene will dissipate.
The television trucks will leave, the reporters will go home.
The security guard as well.
But the macabre circus of death will return.
Robert Trease, who killed a Sarasota man named Paul Edenson in 1997 during a robbery, is the next man up for a date with the needle, according to the state Department of Corrections web site.
No date has been set.