Kane, Gregory Current Controversies: Capital Punishment Mary E. Williams Greenhaven Press 2005
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Frederick Anthony Romano remembers the night. More than 15 years later, he remembers it as if it happened within the last week.
It was Sunday night, Nov. 1, 1987. Seventeen-year-old Romano had gone to bed. His mother, Betty Romano, was in the house with him and his father, Frederick Joseph Romano. Soon the father received a call from his son-in-law Keith Garvin, a Navy petty officer who had returned to his base in Oceana, [Virginia]. Garvin had called his wife, Dawn Garvin, to let her know he had arrived back safely. But there was no answer.
After two calls to his daughter’s house, Frederick J. Romano headed to the newlywed couple’s White Marsh apartment. He found his daughter beaten, tortured, mutilated and dead.
Frederick A. Romano remembers his mother’s panic-filled voice as she talked to his father, of himself grabbing the phone only to hear his father tell him that his older sister had been hurt.
“But he knew she was dead,” Frederick A. Romano said…. Yes, Frederick A. Romano-who prefers to...
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