77-year-old man put to death in Florida, 16th person to be executed in the state this year
Curtis Wilkie Beasley was executed for the 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort, after supreme court declined to intervene A 77-year-old Florida man was put to death on Tuesday for his conviction in a deadly hammer attack on a woman decades ago, becoming the 16th person executed to date this year in the nation’s busiest death chamber. Curtis Wilkie Beasley was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a…
Starke, Florida witnessed the execution of 77-year-old Curtis Wilkie Beasley on Tuesday, following his conviction for a deadly hammer attack on a woman in 1995. Beasley, pronounced dead at 6:12 pm (2.12 am Gulf) after a lethal injection at the Florida State Prison, was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery, and grand theft auto.
The execution took place despite recent rejections from the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court regarding the cruelty of executing an elderly man suffering from cognitive decline. Beasley, the seventh prisoner over 70 to be executed this year in Florida, was the 29th person, all men, executed in the US this year.
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