It took a jury about 40 minutes to decide that Louis Gaskin should die.
Dubbed by the media the Ninja Killer because of the dark outfit he wore during his crimes, Gaskin had been found guilty of shooting Robert and Georgette Sturmfels as he burglarized their Flagler County home. His defense attorney offered little to weigh against capital punishment.
From what Thomas Stuckey remembers more than three decades after he served on the 12-person jury, they didn’t have much to discuss.