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Florida News Service Segment: Mock Execution of Anthony Antone, 1984

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1984-01

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Lee Mainella reports on anti-death penalty demonstrators holding mock executions in the Capitol rotunda to protest the planned electrocution of death row inmate Anthony Antone. Governor Bob Graham is steadfast in his support of the death penalty. Note: There a hard cut while the governor is speaking.

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Mainella, Lee, 1945-1999

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Florida News Service
Channel 4 News Service

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Florida State Capitol (Tallahassee, Fla.)
Florida--Governor (1979-1987 : Graham)

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Tallahassee
Leon County

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Antone, Anthony, 1918-1984
Graham, Bob (Daniel Robert), 1936-2024

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Executions in effigy
Death row inmates
Death row
Demonstrations
Capital punishment

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Florida News Service Segment: Mock Execution of Anthony Antone, 1984

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Executions in effigy

Death row inmates

Death row

Demonstrations

Capital punishment

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Florida News Service

Channel 4 News Service

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State Archives of Florida, Collection N2003-2

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1984-01

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Mainella, Lee, 1945-1999

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n2003-2_video001_030

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Antone, Anthony, 1918-1984

Graham, Bob (Daniel Robert), 1936-2024

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Florida State Capitol (Tallahassee, Fla.)

Florida--Governor (1979-1987 : Graham)

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0:01:15

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n2003-2/n2003-2_video001_030.mp4

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Tallahassee (Fla.)

Leon County (Fla.)

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Anthony Antone was convicted of arranging the murder of Richard Cloud of Tampa, Florida, on October 23, 1975. Antone was executed by electric chair on January 27, 1984, at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida.

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Politics And Government

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Florida News Service. Florida News Service Segment: Mock Execution of Anthony Antone, 1984. 1984-01. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/346301>, accessed 17 November 2024.

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Florida News Service. Florida News Service Segment: Mock Execution of Anthony Antone, 1984. 1984-01. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/346301>

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(State Archives of Florida/Florida News Service)

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