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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…

77-year-old man put to death in Florida, 16th person to be executed in the state this year

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