Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of murdering a woman in St. Petersburg three decades ago.
Robert Brian Waterhouse is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Feb. 15 under the order issued by Scott, the third death warrant he has signed since becoming governor just under a year ago.
Scott set the week for the execution and Florida State Prison Warden Steven Singer set the exact day.
Waterhouse, 65, was convicted in the Jan. 2, 1980, murder of Deborah Kammerer. He had been set for execution under a death warrant signed by Gov. Bob Graham in 1985 but a stay was issued four days before he was to be executed.
The lengthy time between Kammerer’s murder and a new warrant for Waterhouse’s death was due in part to an order that he be resentenced in 1988 to take into account mitigating evidence ignored in the sentencing phase of his first trial.
Waterhouse was again sentenced to death in 1990, which started the mandatory appeal process over again.
Waterhouse at the time of the murder was on lifetime parole from an earlier life sentence for the killing of 77-year-old Ella Carter in New York.