TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1999
Terry Melvin
Sims v.
State of Florida
No. 96,818
Place of Origin
Seminole County
Facts
Sims was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the
December 1977 murder of George Pfeil, an off-duty deputy
sheriff who had entered a pharmacy while it was being robbed by
Sims and three other men. He is scheduled to be executed at 7
a.m. October 26. He asks for a stay and challenges his sentence.