Edward Zakrzewski was executed Thursday evening for the 1994 murders of his wife and two children in their Okaloosa County home, as Florida set a modern-era record for executions in a year.

Zakrzewski, 60, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at Florida State Prison, according to the state Department of Corrections. He was the ninth inmate put to death by lethal injection this year. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed death warrants for two more executions in August.

Thursday’s execution came a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final attempt to spare Zakrzewski.

Zakrzewski was convicted of using a crowbar, a rope and a machete to murder his wife, Sylvia, 7-year-old son, Edward, and 5-year-old daughter, Anna, after his wife wanted a divorce. He fled to Hawaii after the murders and lived t

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