A Florida man who spent more than 20 years in prison for killing his wife and stepdaughter was executed by the state on Thursday.
Chadwick Banks, 43, was administered a lethal injection on Thursday evening at the Florida State Prison, Reuters reports.
Banks was arrested in 1992, four days after he fatally shot his wife Cassandra Banks while she was sleeping. He later confessed to raping and killing his 10-year-old stepdaughter Melody Cooper soon after the shooting.
Banks’ execution is the 89th in Florida since the U.S. reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
[Reuters]
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