The American Harrel Braddy forced up to Shandelle y Quatisha Maycock to your auto and started the march.
Then he stopped, savagely attacked the mother and abandoned the little girl in a terrible place. dangerous.
Days later, Quatisha was found dead, and Harrel received the worst sentence for his responsibility in the incident. However, now, a series of changes in the judicial system have enabled magistrates to review their judgment.
Failed seduction, kidnapping and a horrendous death: the details of the case
On November 7, 1998, Harrel Braddyfrom Miami, met Shandelle Maycock and his daughter, Quatishaof 5 yearsin a church of Florida.
After Shandelle rejected his romantic advances, the man kidnapping at two.
After kidnapping them, Braddy abandoned both women. Photo: FTP ClarínWhen he reached Highway 27, near the border between Broward and Palm Beach counties, he got off. to the motherwhom he had placed in the trunk, the strangled and then abandoned her to her fate.
Despite losing consciousness, Shandelle woke up after a while and managed to ask a driver for help, which allowed her to survive.
Meanwhile, Braddy continued on his way with the girl, eventually abandoning her as well. Although he had not hit her, the place where he left her sentenced her to death: near Interstate Route 75, in a stretch known as Alligator Alley for the amount of crocodiles what’s there
Harrel himself would later state that he knew the girl would probably die.
And so it was. Two days later, fishermen found Quatisha’s body, missing her left arm, in a canal.
The subsequent autopsy indicated that he suffered alligator bites on chest and head while still alive. The arm had apparently been severed after his death. The report concluded that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the left side of the skull.
The police detained Braddy, and upon doing so realized that he already had a criminal history.
He had attempted to murder his ex-girlfriend in 1984 and, while undergoing a hearing for it, attacked a guard who was escorting him, knocked him unconscious inside a holding cell at the courthouse, and escaped.
Eleven days after the escape, police arrested him while robbing a Hollywood store. However, Braddy managed to overpower two officers and escaped again. After that, he broke into a couple’s house and stole their car.
Finally, three weeks later, he was permanently arrested in Georgia. He received a 30-year prison sentence, but was released in 1997, a year before Quatisha’s murder, after serving only 13 years of his sentence.
«Adults must protect children from monsters»: Braddy’s sentence and a possible review
In 2007, nine years after the kidnapping, Braddy was declared culpable of murder for the death of little Quatisha and sentenced to death.
“The defendant caused the death of this five-year-old girl, alone in nature, and she let the monsters mutilate her of the swamp,» then-Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Leonard E. Glick said in his sentencing order. «Adults are supposed to protect children from monsters, not be the monsters themselves,» he added.
Through a legal device, Braddy could be saved from the death penalty. Photo: FTP ClarínDespite the above, Harrel, who is now 76 years old, could be saved of execution due to changes in the law that enabled the death penalty in Florida.
In 2016, the United States Supreme Court declared state death penalty unconstitutional because the decision did not rest with a jury, but simply with a judge.
A year later, Florida’s highest court heeded the statement and also demanded that the sentence must be the result of a unanimous decision by the jurors.
This enabled new sentences for about 100 convicts, including Braddy.
However, in 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis toughened the law a bit, establishing that unanimity is no longer necessary, but that juries can dictate the death penalty with the approval of 8 of the 12 judges that comprise them.
This Monday, January 5, the trial finally began to re-sentence Harrel, who, beyond everything, is still excited about change your destiny.
