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| Eric Branch Last Words: Florida Killer Screamed 'Murderers' After Lethal Injection |
| By newsweek.com- Sofia Lotto Persio |
| Published: 02/23/2018 |
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A Florida inmate who was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murder of college student Susan Morris screamed “murderers” three times after receiving the lethal injection on Thursday evening at Florida State Prison. Eric Branch used his last words to address the team warden and two other officials present in the execution chamber, asking them to let Governor Rick Scott and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to carry out the execution instead. "I ask you to step out of line of duty and not participate in this. The governor wishes to be senator, and Pam Bondi wishes to be governor. Let them come down here and do it,” the 47-year-old said, quoted in local news publication Pensacola News Journal. “I’ve learned that you are good people and this is not what you should be doing," he added. Read More. |
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