LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida man convicted of killing three people was executed on Wednesday.

Following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, David Pittman, 63, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. EDT.

According to the Associated Press, Pittman's last words were, "I know you all came to watch an innocent man be murdered by the State of Florida. I am innocent. I didn't kill anybody. That's it."

Polk Sheriff Grady Judd remembers several brutal murders that impacted Mulberry in 1990. Decades later, he went to the Florida State prison in Bradford County to witness the execution of Pittman.

A jury convicted and sentenced Pittman to death in 1991 for killing his wife’s parents, Clarence and Barbara Knowles. He also killed his wife’s sister, Bonnie, and set their house on fire.

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