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Howard Ault’s Date With Death Delayed – Again

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FT. LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – A South Florida man on death row for killing a pair of young sisters in 1996 and stuffing their bodies in his attic will have to a wait a bit longer to tell the judge he wants to drop his appeal and fire his attorney.

On Friday Howard Ault’s hearing was moved after the judge was told that he had not received his prescribed anti-depressant medication in two days. Fearing that he was not competent to make a decision, the judge ordered Broward prosecutors to make sure Ault was given his medications and ordered him back to court on Sunday in a rare weekend court hearing.

On Sunday, Ault told the judge he again did not take his medications. The judge ordered that Ault be returned to the facility where he is being held and to make sure he was given prescribed medication. Instead of bringing him to the courthouse for a third time, the judge said the next hearing would be held over their court’s closed circuit camera system.

Last September, Ault appeared in court ready to drop his death penalty appeals and set an execution day but then wavered and said he wasn’t quite sure he’s ready to die. He also told the judge he had not been given his prescribed psychiatric medication.

The court could not proceed with the hearing because Ault wasn’t certain about wanting to drop his appeals.

Ault was convicted in 1999 of raping and murdering 11-year-old DeAnn Mu’min and murdering her 7-year-old sister, Alicia Jones, in Oakland Park in 1996.

At the time of the murders, the girls’ mother, Donna Jones was homeless and living with her daughters in Easterlin Park in Oakland Park. Ault had befriended Jones at the campground.

On Nov. 4, 1996, Ault offered her daughters a ride home from school in his truck. Instead, he drove them to his house in Fort Lauderdale, where he raped DeAnn, then strangled her and her sister. He then hid their bodies in his attic. Their bodies were found two days later.

After the original jury recommended the death penalty, Broward Circuit Judge Marc Gold sentenced Ault to death. But the sentence was overturned in 2003 by the Florida Supreme Court, which ruled that Gold erred in dismissing a potential juror who expressed opposition to the death penalty.

Four years later, another jury again recommended the death penalty. And again, Gold sentenced Ault to die


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