This Article is From Oct 30, 2015

Florida Executes Man Who Killed 4 in 1985

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Jerry Correll, a convicted murderer who has been on death row for 30 years for killing four people in 1985, was executed by US state of Florida. (Representational Image)

Washington: The US state of Florida executed a convicted murderer Thursday who had been on death row 30 years for killing four people, including his five-year-old daughter, in 1985.

Jerry Correll, 59, died by lethal injection at 7:36 pm (2336 GMT), according to McKinley Lewis, spokesman for the Florida Department of Corrections.

The US Supreme Court had rejected a request for a stay of execution.

Correll was sentenced for killing his daughter, his ex-wife, and her mother and sister.

The execution is the 25th in the United States this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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