Since
New York’s death penalty is unconstitutional, I am happy that at least Dante
Taylor will not get to keep his life since he was found dead on October 7,
2017. Do not forget the victim, Sarah Goode.
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Dante Taylor at Suffolk County Court in
Riverhead on July 29, 2016, when he was sentenced to life without parole for
killing Sarah Goode. Photo Credit: James Carbone
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"There is no other
reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose this
morning but that God's hand has held you up." - Jonathan Edwards
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Sarah Goode’s killer dead
Story
By: STAFF WRITER
10/19/2017
Dante
Taylor, the Mastic man who was convicted of the murder of Sarah Goode, died in
an upstate New York hospital on Oct. 7. Taylor, 22, was sentenced last year to
life in prison without parole. He was serving that sentence at the Wende
Correctional Facility near Buffalo. According to the NYS Department of
Corrections and Community Supervision, he was pronounced dead at 11:51 a.m. at
a local hospital in Erie County. Official cause of death will be determined and
released by the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office. He had been serving his
sentence at the time of his death. “As with all unattended deaths, DOCCS’
Office of Special Investigations has an ongoing investigation into the death of
this inmate and the department cannot comment further,” said a corrections and
community supervision spokesperson. A post on a Facebook page set up in memory
of Goode read, “The monster who so violently ended Sarah’s young life will no
longer breathe another breath, will no longer see another day, will no longer
have the privilege of living a life — something he made certain she could not
do. Sarah’s beauty is eternal. Her laugh is unforgettable. Her memories are
carved in the hearts of all whom she met.” Taylor was convicted in June 2016 of
first-degree murder of Goode, 21, who was stabbed more than 40 times on June 7,
2014.
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Sarah
Patricia Goode
(December
29, 1992 to June 7, 2014)
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Dante Taylor, convicted killer,
dies in prison, officials say
Dante
Taylor, the Mastic man who was convicted of murder in the fatal stabbing of
Sarah Goode, has died in an upstate New York prison, officials confirmed.
Taylor was sentenced last year to life without parole for Goode's murder.
By
Nicole Fuller and Andrew Smith nicole.fuller@newsday.com,
Dante
Taylor, the Mastic man serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of a
young Medford mother, died Saturday in an upstate New York hospital, officials
confirmed Monday.
Taylor,
22, was sentenced last year to life in prison without parole for the 2014
stabbing death of Sarah Goode, 21.
The
ex-Marine was pronounced dead at 11:51 a.m. Saturday at a hospital in Erie
County, said an official with the state Department of Corrections and Community
Supervision. He had been serving his sentence at the Wende Correctional
Facility near Buffalo.
The
cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, the official said.
The
correction department’s office of special investigations has opened a probe
into how Taylor died, the official said. The office investigates all prison
deaths. The official declined to provide the circumstances of Taylor’s death or
any preliminary cause-of-death findings, citing the ongoing investigation.
A post on
a Facebook page set up by Goode’s family read in part, “The
monster who so violently ended Sarah’s young life will no longer breathe
another breath, will no longer see another day, will no longer have the
privilege of living a life — something he made certain she could not do.
Sarah’s beauty is eternal. Her laugh is unforgettable. Her memories are carved
in the hearts of all whom she met.”
Taylor
was convicted in June 2016 of first-degree murder. Goode was stabbed more than
40 times early on June 7, 2014.
Prosecutors
said Taylor met Goode at a party earlier in the evening and then met her again
later closer to her Medford home. They say that after she apparently resisted
his advances, he raped and killed her and left her body in the woods.
Her
abandoned, blood-soaked car bore a bloody palm print later matched to Taylor.
But even before her body was found on June 12, police focused on Taylor after
realizing he was the last person to call her phone, and he did so while
traveling toward her home.
Taylor’s
trial was marked by police and prosecutorial misconduct. His first arrest was
essentially voided after police took his fingerprints, DNA and cellphone
without probable cause and questioned him without reading him his rights. He
was arrested again a month later in Florida.
During
the trial, state Supreme Court Justice John Collins sanctioned the prosecution
for withholding evidence from the defense, including a series of Crime Stoppers
tips pointing to other possible suspects. Police also destroyed a threatening
voice mail message from the boyfriend with whom Goode had just split.
“It’s a tragedy,” said
Taylor’s trial attorney, John Lewis Jr. of Farmingdale. “His death is just another injustice in a string of injustices. I just
hope someone is held accountable for his death. Now Suffolk County will not be
held accountable for the injustices it committed in getting his conviction.”
Taylor’s
family was not available for comment.
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John Lewis, go screw yourself. The Police misconduct didn't put that monsters DNA on the victim. The biggest injustice here is scum like you getting rich off the government for defending monsters.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s interesting here is now there is no way to know if there was nor will the police be investigated. Whomever did the horrible things to Sarah is a monster but we are held to a higher standard and must conduct ourselves thus but now we will never know anymore. I would rather have seen him rot and watch his life pass him by instead.
ReplyDeleteHope they raped him first!
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