Protesters(click here) against the death penalty demonstrate in front of the Florida State
Prison near Starke Tuesday. Darius Mark Kimbrough convicted in the 1991
sexual assault and murder of an aspiring artist in Orlando was executed
at the prison Tuesday.
AP Photo
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Published time: November 13, 2013 17:03
Two convicted murderers (click here) were executed by Florida and Texas on Tuesday, one of whom was killed using a controversial drug that some claim leaves the recipient in excruciating pain
.
The 40-year-old Darius Kimbrough – convicted of sexually assaulting and killing a Florida woman named Denise Collins in 1991– was executed and pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m. EST, roughly 18 minutes after his lethal injection was administered. In Texas, Jamie McCoskey, 49, was also killed via lethal injection. He was convicted of kidnapping a couple in Houston, raping the woman and stabbing her fiancĂ© to death in 1991....