A former Sweetwater police officer is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday night, 27 years after he went on a violent crime spree that saw him murder nine people. Manuel Pardo, once a highly respected and decorated highway patrolman for the Florida police force, began his three month killing spree after he was terminated for lying. Pardo, who is now 56, is scheduled for execution on Tuesday at the Florida State Prison.

Pardo’s lawyers are doing the best they can to have his execution case blocked arguing that their client is mentally unstable. This is something that Manuel Pardo’s trial attorney believed in about 20 years ago. “I think that anybody who would get up & ask a jury to just sentence him to death is insane,” said Atty. Ronald Guralnick in a recent interview.

Regino Musa, who is the brother of one of Manuel Pardo’s victims, says that he still finds it a bit hard to grasp that the former officers execution is about to take place. He says that he and his mother plan to attend so that they can see his sibling’s killer one last time.

For the Musas and the rest of the victims’ families, justice will finally be served after more than two decades.