{"id":1979,"date":"2026-04-22T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pittglobalnews.com\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:03:16","slug":"florida-man-executed-after-35-years-on-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pittglobalnews.com\/es\/florida-man-executed-after-35-years-on-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man executed after 35 years on Death Row"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Florida man who spent 35 years on Death Row for the murder of his neighbor was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, state prison officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chadwick Willacy, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:15 pm (2215 GMT) at the state prison in Raiford, the Florida Department of Corrections said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willacy was sentenced to death in 1991 for the murder the previous year of a neighbor, Marlys Sather, 56, during a burglary of her home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight executions have been carried out in the United States this year — five in Florida, two in Texas and one in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 47 executions in the United States last year, the most since 2009, when 52 people were put to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida carried out the most executions in 2025, with 19, followed by Alabama, South Carolina and Texas, where there were five each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty-nine of last year’s executions were carried out by lethal injection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three were by firing squad and five by nitrogen hypoxia, which involves pumping nitrogen gas into a face mask, causing the prisoner to suffocate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment has been denounced by United Nations experts as cruel and inhumane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states, while three others — California, Oregon and Pennsylvania — have moratoriums in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump is a proponent of capital punishment and has called for an expansion of its use “for the vilest crimes.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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