Indiana executed a man hours earlier, and in Alabama, a man was scheduled to die by injection later
Florida carried out a record-tying 19th execution of the year on Thursday in an unusual instance of three states administering the death penalty on the same day.
Jesse Guardado was pronounced dead at 6.13pm following a three-drug injection at a state prison in Starke, the governor’s office said. Guardado had pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman inside her Walton county home in 2004 before stealing her jewelry box, $80 and other valuables to buy drugs. The woman had helped him get a job and housing.
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