Florida prisoner who spent decades on death row should be executed
A Florida prisoner who spent decades on death row for a 1990 murder and a Tallahassee carjacking is due to be executed this week.
Donald Dilbeck is due to be executed Thursday after the Florida Supreme Court rejected his latest appeal last week.
The execution will be the first in Florida since 2019.
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According to court records, Dilbeck was originally sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the murder of County Deputy Sheriff Lee Lynn Hall on April 11, 1979, when he was a boy. Court records show that Dilbeck shot Hall twice with a deputy’s pistol while fleeing Indiana law enforcement.
“More than a decade later, Dilbeck ran away from work and killed a woman while trying to steal her in the parking lot of a Tallahassee mall,” the case statement said.
He was found guilty of first degree murder, armed robbery and armed burglary and sentenced to death and two consecutive life sentences.
Dilbeck’s death sentence was finally handed down in 1995. Dilbeck filed an appeal in 2018 that was dismissed later that year, court records show.
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