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at the Florida State Prison in Starke, marking the sixth inmate put to death in Florida this year. He was also the 105th person executed in the state since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.WEAR News was one of the media witnesses to that execution. Death penalty opponents argue Zack was a changed man whose life should have been spared.Laurie Rosillo was the first victim, killed on an Okaloosa County beach after befriending Zack at a nearby bar.
It was the sexual assault and murder of Ravonne Kennedy Smith the next day in Escambia County that would ultimately lead him to death row in 1997. Appeal after appeal through the years offered insight into Zack’s mental state. His attorneys most recently argued he suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, though the sentence would never be reversed.The witness room was still. Not a word was spoken among the 20 witnesses for more than 30 minutes.
When the curtain covering the window to the execution room was dropped, Zack looked to the crowd before a prison official called the governor to confirm the death warrant.Just outside the prison, about 50 people protested across the street from the prison.Aguirre spent more than a decade on death row with Zack before his own death sentence for double murder was thrown out for wrongful conviction."I believe with all my love and all my heart, that place changes you forever.
Though his final words on the execution table were brief, Zack left behind more for others to read, in a letter he released on his last day., there are currently no executions scheduled in Florida through 2025.
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