Officer to be Executed: Florida Ex-Policeman Manuel Pardo to be Killed by Lethal Injection for Robbing, Murdering 9 Drug Dealers, Witnesses

Reports confirm that former Florida state police officer Manuel Pardo is set to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Pardo is scheduled to be executed for the killing of nine individuals - according to prosecutors, 56-year-old Pardo robbed and murdered several drug dealers and witnesses back in 1986. Pardo's lawyers have filed an appeal in hopes that he will not be put to death at Florida State Prison on Tuesday evening, insisting that Pardo is mentally ill and did not have stable psychological control over his own disturbing actions.

Pardo was a respected member of the Florida police force until he was fired in the 1980s for lying during a trial. After being terminated from his law enforcement position, Pardo admits to going on a three-month long killing spree where he ended up killing nine people (mostly drug dealers). During his admission, Pardo insisted that he had been trying to rid the streets of the "scum of the Earth," one bad guy at a time. Even so, some of Pardo's victims were innocent witnesses. During his 1988 trial, Pardo stated:

"They're parasites and they're leeches, and they have no right to be alive. Somebody had to kill these people."

Just a day before Pardo is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, the ex-policeman's lawyers are still hoping for a last-minute appeal, arguing that state courts failed to provide a "meaningful review" of Pardo's challenge to changes in Florida's three-drug lethal injection cocktail. Pardo's attorneys also insist that psychiatric and competency information about their client was never properly forwarded to the State Executive Clemency Board. Padro's lawyers are fighting for his life even though at the end of his 1988 trial when judge and jury found him "guilty," Padro had announced to the court that he wished to be sent to death row as quickly as possible:

"I am a soldier, I accomplished my mission and I humbly ask you to give me the glory of ending my life and not send me to spend the rest of my days in state prison."

Florida state argues that Pardo's constitutional rights were not violated - he is still currently scheduled to be executed on Tuesday evening (Dec. 11).