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Florida man screams, yells 'murderers!' as he's put to death

As the execution drugs were being administered, inmate Eric Scott Branch let out a blood-curdling scream. Then he yelled "murderers! murderers! murderers!" as he thrashed on a gurney as he was being put to death for the 1993 rape and slaying of a college student.

 

The drugs included a powerful sedative Thursday evening and the 47-year-old inmate, following the outburst, gave a last guttural groan and turned silent. Minutes earlier, he had just been addressing corrections officers, saying it should fall to Florida Gov. Rick Scott and his attorney general to carry out the death sentence—not to those workers present.

 

"Let them come down here and do it," Branch said. "I've learned that you're good people and this is not what you should be doing."

 

Branch was pronounced dead at 7:05pm Thursday after receiving the injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. The governor's office made the announcement.

 


פרסום ראשון: 02.23.18, 12:46