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[[Image:{{Infobox Biography| subject_name =Clarence Hill| image_name =ClarenceHillMugshot.jpg|thumbimage_size =225px|right|Clarence Hillimage_caption =''s picture from the Florida Department of Correctionsfile photo''| date_of_birth =[[1957]]| place_of_birth =Mobile, Alabama| date_of_death =[[September 20]], [[2006]]| place_of_death =Florida State Prison<br/>Starke, Florida| occupation =Convicted murderer| religion =| spouse =| parents =| children =}}
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'''Clarence Hill''' ([[1957]]-[[2006]]), a native of [[Mobile, Alabama]], was convicted of the [[1982]] murder of [[Pensacola Police Department|Pensacola police officer]] [[Stephen Taylor]] and the wounding of Taylor's partner, [[Larry Bailly]], when the two officers responded to a bank alarm. Regarding the crime, [[Pensacola Chief of Police|Police chief]] [[John Mathis]] recalled, "Hill was out of the bank. He made a conscious decision to come back and ambush (Taylor) and (Bailly)." Nearly 24 years after the crime, after multiple appeals and stays of execution which were widely condemned by local residents, Hill was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
