Still, about 200 people gathered in the field across the street from the death chamber.ДЄbout half stood on one side, near a sign that said 'supporters.' The other half stood near a sign that said 'Opponents.' They were separated by their views on the death penalty and a row of Florida Highway Patrol cruisers.Дenise Fox, 41, of Gainesville, held a sign that said, 'Finally. Outside the state prison in Starke, 40-plus miles from Gainesville, the execution did not attract huge crowds of celebrators and protesters like the execution of Bundy in 1989, when people popped champagne bottles and drank beer.

Something should have happened here on campus today, because those students were just like the students walking around here today.' 'I think it's because people didn't want to bring back that unpleasantness,' Buchanan said. Wednesday afternoon, as he walked past five memorial trees planted on campus shortly after the murders, he wondered why there were no vigils or gatherings planned in Gainesville to honor Rolling's victims. UF library archivist Joel Buchanan, 55, was a financial aid administrator at the time of the murders. 'It was pretty shocking and kind of disturbing,' Marks said. She found out Wednesday from her parents that Tracy Paules was her childhood babysitter. Lauren Marks, 23, a UF law student, left the flowers at the wall painted with the victims' names. Powell and Manuel Taboada in August, 1990. Rolling was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering UF students Christa Leigh Hoyt, Sonja Larson, Tracy Paules, Christina P. 'I realized what time it was so I decided to come out and pay my respects,' Samonas said. The University of Florida student and a friend had repainted the memorial wall, on 34th Street, in Gainesville, two months ago after it had been vandalized. OctoJonathan Samonas, 19, of Coral Springs, touches one of the painted hearts on a painted wall memorializing victims of the Gainesville murders moments after hearing that Danny Rolling was pronounced dead on Wednesday.

They urged people to forget Rolling, but remember their loved ones whom he had so savagely killed. Later, outside the prison, the families of Rolling's victims said they were relieved he was gone. Rolling confessed to killing her and four other college students - Christa Hoyt, Sonja Larson, Manuel Taboada, and Christina Powell - during a three-day rampage in August 1990. Rolling only briefly looked in the witness room, into the eyes of Ricky Paules, the mother of Tracy Paules, whom Rolling killed in her Gainesville apartment. His mouth went still, then his chest.ДЄt 6:13 p.m., the man who terrorized Gainesville 16 years ago, was pronounced dead. Rolling's mouth began moving again as if to sing, but it was too late. When Rolling paused after two minutes, the prison staff cut off the microphone. One family member later called it 'a waste of time.' 'None greater than thee, Oh Lord, none greater than thee.'ДЇamily members of his eight victims - five in Florida and three he was linked to in Louisiana - clutched each other, rolled their eyes or shook their heads. 'He who flung the stars into heavens above, created the oceans, mountains, eagles and doves,' he sang.

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