A US citizen was executed in Florida on Thursday, an event that has been unprecedented in this southeastern US state for more than three years.
Sentenced to death for a murder he committed in 1990 while on the run from an earlier murder, Donald Dillbeck was killed by lethal injection.
That year, Dillbeck killed a woman in a parking lot in the state capital, Tallahassee, when he was already on the run after being sentenced to life in prison for the 1979 death of a police officer when he was 15, according to local media.
Donald had been on so-called “death row” for 32 years, the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper reported.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a leniency application that has now been filed.
Donald Dillbeck is the seventh person to be executed in the US since the beginning of this year and the 100th in Florida since 1976, the year that ended a short moratorium on the death penalty in the US.
Source: DN
