Execution of Longtime Inmate Remains On Schedule

Robert Waterhouse, who has been on death row for three decades, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. today (Wednesday) at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

Waterhouse, 65, was out on lifetime parole for second-degree murder in New York when he killed a St. Petersburg woman, Deborah Kammerer, in 1980.

In 1966, Waterhouse was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and burglary in New York in the death of a 77-year-old woman. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Gov. Rick Scott signed the death warrant for Waterhouse on Jan. 3.

Last year, Scott signed the death warrants for Oba Chandler, convicted of murdering a woman and her two daughters who were vacationing in Tampa from Ohio in 1989, and convicted cop killer Manuel Valle.