(Miami) An American, sentenced to death for a murder perpetrated in 1990 while he was on the run for a previous homicide, was executed Thursday in Florida according to the authorities, a first for more than three years in this state of South- East American.
Donald Dillbeck, killed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, had killed a woman in a parking lot in the state capital, Tallahassee, when he was an escaped prisoner, sentenced to life for a murder of a police officer in 1979, when he was 15, according to the local press.
Donald Dillbeck had been on death row for 32 years, reports the newspaper Tallahassee Democrat.
The United States Supreme Court denied him a last-minute motion.
The family of the 1990 victim, present at the scene, thanked Governor Ron DeSantis for approving the execution.
The day that Mr. DeSantis signed this decree, underlines the Tallahassee Democratthe very conservative politician has also put forward the idea of making death sentences easier by reducing the threshold of the number of votes needed, within a criminal jury, to condemn a defendant to death.
Mr. Dillbeck, in his last words, attacked the governor, a rising star of the hard right who openly flirts with a presidential candidacy in 2024.
“I know I hurt people when I was young. I really screwed up, ”he said, according to comments reported by the Tallahassee Democrat. “But I know Ron DeSantis did much worse. He took many things from many people. »
Donald Dillbeck is the seventh person to be executed in the United States since the beginning of the year, the 100e in Florida since 1976, when a brief moratorium on the death penalty ended in the United States.