Donald Dillbeck will be the first person executed in Florida in more than three years.
Vann, 44, honked her horn, tried to drive off and fought her attacker that Sunday afternoon in 1990 just 2 miles from the state Capitol in Tallahassee, court records show. She was stabbed more than 20 times with a paring knife and had her throat slit by Donald Dillbeck, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday for the murder.
Dillbeck was 15 when he stabbed a man in Indiana while trying to steal a CB radio, court records show. He fled to Florida, where Lee County Deputy Dwight Lynn Hall found him in a Fort Myers beach parking lot. While Hall was searching him, Dillbeck hit the deputy in the groin and ran. Hall tackled him and as the two wrestled, Dillbeck took Hall’s gun and shot him twice
Unless delayed, Dillbeck’s execution will be Florida’s first in nearly four years and the third under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. By comparison, his immediate predecessor, current U.S. Republican Sen. Rick Scott, oversaw 28 executions.to protest the death penalty. They call it a cruel and unusual punishment and that there are alternatives.
A proposed bill would change the requirement to just eight jurors, which would be the lowest threshold in the country.
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