Florida Carries Out Execution Of Richard Knight Following Denied Forensic, Protocol Appeals
May 21, 2026
Florida authorities have executed a death row inmate by lethal injection for the 2000 stabbing deaths of a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter, carrying out the sentence after the state’s highest court rejected multiple last-minute appeals. Richard Knight, 47, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.
m. ET on Thursday, May 21, at Florida State Prison. […]
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