Sept. 17 (UPI) — A Florida man convicted more than 30 years ago in the murder of three Mulberry residents was executed Wednesday evening, the Florida Department of Corrections announced.
David Joseph Pittman, 63, died at 6:12 p.m. in the lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford, the corrections department said.
The U.S. Supreme Court and Florida Supreme Court declined to intervene in the execution, which Pittman’s lawyers appealed on the grounds of intellectual disability.
In 1991, Pittman was convicted of the 1990 murders of three members of his estranged wife’s family in Mulberry after he stabbed them and set their house on fire. Prosecutors said Pittman murdered his wife’s family after she filed for divorce…