Pittman’s execution marks the 12th carried out in Florida this year – the most the state has recorded in a single year since reinstating the death penalty in 1976. His case has been closely watched Pittman spoke his final words before receiving a lethal injection

David Joseph Pittman, a man who has spent more than three decades on Florida’s Death Row, was executed Wednesday evening at Florida State Prison in Raiford. Pittman, 63, was convicted of killing a Mulberry couple and their daughter back in 1990, then setting their home ablaze in an effort to cover his tracks. ‌

Shortly after 6pm the curtain to the execution chamber opened, Pittman spoke his final words before receiving a lethal injection . “I know you all came to watch an innocent man be murdered by the state of Fl

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