Legal Opinion
Sanchez-Velasco v. Secretary of the Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 2, 2002No. 01-13969PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco is a Florida death row inmate. He is under sentence of death for the brutal rape and murder of an eleven year old girl who had been left in his care by her mother. While on death row for that crime, he has murdered two inmates. As he explained to the district court in this proceeding: “I hate people, I don’t like them, I want to kill people. You understand?” When asked by an interviewer how he made the shank he used to kill his two fellow inmates he declined to tell, explaining that he plans to make more shanks to use against other inmates in…
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