Execution order signed for Philadelphia man
On Tuesday, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel signed a Notice of Execution for Omar Sharif Cash for Aug. 15. However, that order will be subject to a moratorium on executions in Pennsylvania.
An execution order was signed Tuesday for a Philadelphia man sentenced to death for a 2008 execution-style murder outside a car wash.
On Tuesday, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel signed a Notice of Execution for Omar Sharif Cash for Aug. 15. However, that order will be subject to a moratorium on executions in Pennsylvania.
Cash, 35, has a long criminal history that started when he was 13 and included robbery, theft, drug crimes, rape, and attempted murder.
In 2008, Cash killed 19-year-old Muliek Brown as he knelt to shine the hubcaps on his green Mercury Marquis. Three weeks later, he kidnapped a couple at gunpoint outside a lower Northeast Philadelphia nightclub, raped the woman and killed the man. He dumped Edgar Rosas-Gutierrez's body on a Bensalem roadside.
Gov. Wolf declared a moratorium on executions in 2015. That decision was upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.