77-year-old man put to death in Florida, 16th person to be executed in the state this year
Curtis Wilkie Beasley was put to death via lethal injection at the Florida state prison on Tuesday. Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenCurtis Wilkie Beasley was put to death via lethal injection at the Florida state prison on Tuesday. Beasley is Florida’s seventh prisoner over 70 to be executed this year.Utah death-row prisoner released after new DNA analysis of 1985 killingRead moreBeasley also was the 29th person, all men, who have been executed around the US this year.
- ▪Curtis Wilkie Beasley was put to death via lethal injection at the Florida state prison on Tuesday.
- ▪Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenCurtis Wilkie Beasley was put to death via lethal injection at the Florida state prison on Tuesday.
- ▪Beasley is Florida’s seventh prisoner over 70 to be executed this year.Utah death-row prisoner released after new DNA analysis of 1985 killingRead moreBeasley also was the 29th person, all men, who have been executed around the US this year
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Curtis Wilkie Beasley was put to death via lethal injection at the Florida state prison on Tuesday. Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenCurtis Wilkie Beasley was put to death via lethal injection at the Florida state prison on Tuesday. Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockFlorida77-year-old man put to death in Florida, 16th person to be executed in the state this yearCurtis Wilkie Beasley was executed for the 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort, after supreme court declined to interveneAssociated PressTue 29 Sep 2026 18.46 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleA 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…
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