The scheduled execution of Harvey Robinson, a Lehigh Valley serial killer convicted of raping and murdering three women in the Allentown, Pennsylvania area during the early 1990s, has been stayed once again — this time by Governor Josh Shapiro.
Robinson, 51, had been set for execution on Tuesday (March 24), but Shapiro stepped in and blocked it, continuing a death penalty moratorium that Pennsylvania governors have maintained since 2015. According to The Morning Call, the state Department of Corrections confirmed the stay.
Robinson was convicted of killing Charlotte Schmoyer, 15, Jessica Jean Forney, 47, and Joan Burghardt, 29, between 1992 and 1993. He also attempted to rape and kill a woman and a young girl during the same period. He was sentenced to death for all three murders, though two of those sentences were later reduced to life in prison on appeal. He remains on death row for the killing of Forney…