TALLAHASSEE — After last-minute appeals were denied in state and federal court, Richard Knight was executed Thursday night at Florida State Prison for the 2000 murder of his cousin’s girlfriend Odessia Stephens and her four-year-old daughter Hanessia Mullings.
Knight, 47, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m., according to the state Department of Corrections.
The execution came after the U.S. Supreme Court, with no noted dissents, issued orders Thursday afternoon rejecting attempts to spare Knight…