Orange-Osceola State Attorney withdraws from latest effort to exonerate death row prisoner Tommy Zeigler orlandosentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from orlandosentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Orange-Osceola prosecutors have withdrawn from the latest effort to exonerate Tommy Zeigler, who has been sitting on death row for decades for the grisly murders of four people, including his wife and in-laws. The move comes months after State Attorney Monique Worrell requested the court and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office release fingerprints collected at the scene of the 1975 murders to a .
Nine months after former Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell asked a judge for permission to test fingerprint evidence in a 1975 quadruple murder that landed Tommy Zeigler on Florida’s Death Row, Worrell’s successor as state attorney has withdrawn the request.