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A Killer's Grip

On Deck


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.


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Mary Shedden has been covering the Gainesville student murders, investigation and trial for newspapers since August 1990, the same year she graduated from the University of Florida. She's been with The Tampa Tribune since 2005.


Thomas W. Krause has reported on legal issues for The Tampa since July 2003. He completed a master's degree in print journalism at the University of Miami in 1995 and has since worked for several newspapers in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. In 2001, as part of his reporting and writing about the death penalty in Georgia, Krause was one of the witnesses at the execution of Terry Michael Mincey, the first man to die by lethal injection in Georgia.


Mark Douglas is an investigative reporter for News Channel 8. He's been covering stories for more than 10 years in the Pinellas County bureau. He also teaches at The University of Tampa where he has served as an adjunct faculty member since 1997.


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