A death row inmate who kidnapped then brutally raped and killed a 12-year-old Orange County girl died in prison Friday.
Robert Power, 50, died at 3:53 a.m. at the Union Correctional Institute in Raiford, a department of corrections spokeswoman said. His death appeared to be from natural causes, but a medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Power was convicted of raping a woman and two girls and killing 12-year-old Angeli Bare in the 1980s.
He is the 5th death row inmate to die this year while waiting for a death warrant. Power's case was still in the appeals process and a death warrant had not been issued, according to the Commission on Capital Cases, an organization that tracks death row cases.
Power was sentenced to death on Nov. 8, 1990, after a jury convicted him of 1st-degree murder in the death of 12-year-old Angeli Bare. He was also serving 8 consecutive life sentences for other crimes.
Power was arrested in October 1987 at his mother's house in Kissimmee. He had been working at an Orlando auto body shop.
Power was one of Florida's 392 death row inmates.
He lived in a solitary cell at the Union Correctional Institute with a television, a radio and headphones, several religious books and three paperback novels. He received 42 visitors -- many who were pen pals -- during his time in prison, records show.
Powers received only one disciplinary write-up, for disorderly conduct, during his 20 years behind bars.
Source: Orlando Sentinel, December 4, 2010
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