STARKE, Fla. — Florida executed Donald David Dillbeck on Thursday evening, three decades after he stabbed to death Faye Vann outside the Tallahassee Mall.
He was the first person Florida has executed in 31/2 years and the 100th the state has put to death since 1979.
A brown curtain rose at 6 p.m. inside the execution chamber at Florida State Prison, near Starke. Dillbeck lay on a gurney, leather straps secured to his arms, a white sheet covering his body up to his chest. He lifted his head a couple of times to look through a window at witnesses.
