Family of Gandy Blvd. murder victim pleaded with gov. to sign death warrant

Nearly forty years after a man was sentenced to death for a killing along Gandy Blvd., daughters of the victim are begging the governor to finally sign a death warrant.Mark Davis was convicted of killing 54-year-old Orville Landis after helping him move into an apartment.Davis was homeless and living in the parking lot.A grieving family Katherine Hansbrough still has the paper she read from when she told the judge what Davis had taken from her family."By viewing those pictures, we saw the brutality that was dealt to my father," Hansbrough said to the judge.She was 32, and her sister, Karole was 22, when it happened."His intention was to retire here," said Karole Landis.NASA analyst murderAfter seeing Landis — who was a retired analyst for NASA — with $500 cash, Davis had said to others that day that he planned to "rip him off and do him in.""This was premeditated, and it was a horrific, horrendous, brutal murder,"The jury voted 8-4 to sentence him to death.With appeals to the Florida a