59-year-old Donald Dillbeck, sentenced to death for murder in Florida, was executed by
lethal injection
.
The local media reported it , specifying that it is the first execution in the state in three years and
the hundredth since the death penalty was reintroduced in 1976
.
Dillbeck was convicted of
stabbing to death a 44-year-old woman
, Faye Lamb Vann, in the parking lot of a Tallahassee mall in 1990 after he attempted to steal her car.
At the time of the events, the 27-year-old was on the run, having escaped from prison where he was serving a life sentence for the murder of a policeman.
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