TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court has issued its ruling on an appeal from the man convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of two Kissimmee police officers.
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Now 52-year-old Everett Miller fatally shot Kissimmee police Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Sam Howard on Aug. 18, 2017.
An Osceola County jury convicted Miller of two counts of first-degree premeditated murder in 2019 and later unanimously recommended death for each murder.
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A judge subsequently agreed and supported the jury’s recommendations of death for both murders, prompting an automatic appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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According to the ruling, filed Thursday, Miller raised seven issues in his appeal, but the court denied each claim.
“For the reasons stated above, we affirm Miller’s convictions and death sentences,” the ruling concludes. “It is so ordered.”
Miller is being held in the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida.
An execution date has not been set.
Read the full Supreme Court ruling below:
Everett G. Miller vs. Florida by Charles Frazier on Scribd
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