Florida judges convicted murderers by poison injection – diepresse.com
25 years after the crime, a double killer is executed in Florida with the poison injection. His lawyers had still tried to prevent this – because he was « pathological obese ».
A convicted murderer has been executed in the state of Florida 25 years after the crime. The 48-year-old was killed in the Raiford prison, the newspaper « USA Today » reported. The executed had admitted to kidnapped, raped and murdered an “Miami Herald” newspaper in 2000 during her lunch break. A few months earlier, he stabbed a woman at Boston in the state of Massachusetts.
He also stood this murder according to media reports. According to « USA Today », a commissioner spoke of a prospective serial killer when arresting.
According to Foxnew, the executive’s lawyers had argued that the convict should not be executed because he was « pathological obese » and could therefore suffer severe pain for his body. The Supreme Court of the state had rejected the objections. (APA/dpa)
