Dozier School for Boys

Starting Sept. 23, a website will be set up to apply for a share of the $20 million available.

About 30 years have passed since Loran was found guilty of both first-degree murder and sexual battery.

Death row inmate Loran Cole is appealing the state's lethal injection procedures to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody argues that Cole waited too long to raise his claims.

Loran Cole is slated to be executed Thursday for raping a woman and murdering her brother in 1994. Now Cole is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution.

The Supreme Court decision rejected a series of arguments, including claims related to abuse Cole suffered as a teenager at the state’s notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna.

Nearly two dozen men, most of them elderly, peppered Attorney General Ashley Moody’s staff Monday with questions about a $20 million program that will compensate them for brutality they endured at the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna and Okeechobee School in South Florida.

Attorney General Ashley Moody's office has urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject efforts to prevent the scheduled execution of Loran Cole, disputing arguments related to abuse Cole suffered as a teen and his symptoms from Parkinson's disease.

Loran Cole, 57, was sent to Death Row in the February 1994 murder of Florida State University student John Edwards, who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister, a student at Eckerd College, court records show.

Marion County Circuit Judge Robert Hodges on Thursday refused to vacate Cole’s death sentence.

The ruling likely will set off a flurry of appeals in the runup to the scheduled Aug. 29 execution of Loran Cole. Cole was sentenced to death in the February 1994 murder of John Edwards, who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister, a student at Eckerd College, court records show.

Loran Cole, 57, was sentenced to death in the February 1994 murder of John Edwards, who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister, a student at Eckerd College, court records show. Cole was 17 when he was sent to Dozier in 1984.

The program will compensate people who were at Dozier or the Okeechobee reform school between 1940 and 1975 and “who were subjected to mental, physical or sexual abuse perpetrated by school personnel.”