The Brief
- Florida death row inmate Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. was scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday in the 1996 killing of Richard Allen Montgomery.
- Authorities found Montgomery’s mutilated body in a southwest Florida wooded area where at least six victims were discovered over three years.
- Known as the suspected “Hog Trail Murders” killer, Conahan maintains his innocence and faced execution after the Florida Supreme Court denied his final appeals.
STARKE, Fla. – A Florida death row inmate linked to the “Hog Trail Murders” was scheduled Thursday to die by lethal injection for the 1996 kidnapping and murder of Richard Allen Montgomery.
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Florida death row execution
What we know:
Florida scheduled 72-year-old Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. for execution by lethal injection Thursday. A judge convicted Conahan in August 1999 for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery. Search crews found Montgomery’s mutilated body in a wooded area in southwest Florida.…