He was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. ET, the governor’s office said. The fugitive, who escaped from prison where he was serving life for killing a deputy, later brutally killed of a woman whose throat he slit during a carjacking.
Dillbeck killed Vann in carjacking
In 1990, at the shopping mall where Vann was waiting for her family, Dillbeck approached her car with the knife and demanded a ride, court records show. The execution began at 6:02 p.m., and Dillbeck closed his eyes shortly thereafter. He was declared dead roughly 10 minutes later.Outside the walls of the Raiford prison in north central Florida Thursday, about 60 attendees gathered for a vigil and to pray, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
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