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.