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Phillip Alexander ATKINS
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

    
 
 
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Kidnapping - Rape
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: September 23, 1981
Date of birth: 1955
Victim profile: Antonio Castillo (male, 6)
Method of murder: Beating with a steel pipe
Location: Polk County, Florida, USA
Status: Executed by electrocution in Florida on December 5, 1995
 
 
 
 
 

Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions
 

Docket #86882 - Phillip Alexander Atkins, Appellant, v. Jerry Hill, etc., Appellee.
663 So. 2d 624; December 1, 1995.

 
opinion initial brief of appellant
 
 

Docket #80108 - Phillip Alexander Atkins, Petitioner, vs. Harry K. Singletary, etc., Respondent. 622 So. 2d 951; May 27, 1993.
 
opinion petition for extraordinary relief
 
response in opposition to petition reply to petitioner
 
 

Docket #73869 - Phillip Alexander Atkins, Petitioner, vs. Richard L. Dugger, etc., Respondents. 541 So. 2d 1165; April 13, 1989.
 

Docket #73910 - Phillip Alexander Atkins, Appellant, vs. State of Florida, Appellee. 541 So. 2d 1165; April 13, 1989. (Consolidated Case).
 
opinion
 

Docket #73869
 
petition for extraordinary relief response in opposition to petition
 

Docket #73910
 
initial brief of appellant brief of appellee
 
reply brief of appellant
 
 
 
 
 
 

Florida executes second inmate in two days

CNN.com

December 5, 1995

STARKE, Florida (CNN) -- Florida has executed its second inmate in two days. Phillip Atkins, 40, who was convicted for kidnapping, raping and beating a 6-year-old boy to death in 1981, died Tuesday in Florida's electric chair.

Atkins kidnapped Antonio Castillo from his Lakeland, Florida, home in 1981, took him to some nearby woods, and sexually molested him. When the boy threatened to tell his parents, Atkins beat the child to death with his hands and a steel pipe.

Before he was executed, Atkins apologized to Castillo's family, who were present, in a long and rambling statement. He said he was "ready to go on to the other side and meet the Lord, my master."

On Monday, Jerry White, 47, who is an inmate at the same prison in Starke, was executed for the 1981 murder of a convenience store customer during a robbery. He also shot the store owner, who was left paralyzed from his wounds.

Atkins is the 36th person in Florida to die since the state resumed capital punishment in 1976.
 

 
 
 
 
 
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