Florida prisoner given lethal injection, executed for 1990 murder at shopping mall parking

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A 59-year-old man, identified as Donald Dillbeck, was executed in Florida for the murder of a woman in 1990..

Florida executed a man on Thursday for murdering a woman in 1990 after he escaped from prison, stabbing her to death in a shopping mall parking lot in an attempted carjacking...

Donald Dillbeck, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, the governors office said..

Floridas Supreme Court earlier this month denied appeals claiming he shouldnt be put to death because he suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome and it was cruel and unusual to keep him on death row for more than 30 years before his death warrant was signed..

But DeSantis criticized a Broward County jurys failure to sentence Nikolas Cruz to death for fatally shooting 17 students and faculty at a Parkland high school, and has since said he wants to change a 2017 state law that requires a unanimous jury recommendation to impose the death penalty so that one or two jurors cant affect the sentence...

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