Oba Chandler Execution Set for this Afternoon in Raiford

Pending any last-minute delays, which are not expected, Oba Chandlers 17-year stay on Floridas death row ends this afternoon.

Chandler, 65, is scheduled to die by lethal injection today at 4 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Raiford.

Gov. Rick Scott has already signed the death warrant and the Florida Supreme Court on Nov. 7 unanimously reaffirmed the death penalty for Chandler.

Chandler was convicted and sentenced to die in 1994 for the 1989 murders of Joan Rogers, 36, and her two daughters, Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14. The three were vacationing in Tampa from Ohio.

He received death sentences for each death.

The bodies of all three women were found in Tampa Bay, and a cinder block was tied by a rope around their necks. Medical examiners determined the cause of death of all three women to be asphyxiation from the ropes around their necks or from drowning.

Rogers car was found abandoned beside a boat ramp off the Courtney Campbell Causeway. Inside the car they found a brochure with directions on it, parts of which were written in Oba Chandlers handwriting. Chandlers fingerprints were also lifted from the brochure.