Florida death row inmate slams Ron DeSantis in final words

Death row inmate Donald Dillbeck used his last words before his execution Thursday night to trash talk Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

“I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up,” Dillbeck, 59, said while strapped to a gurney at a Florida state prison. a Democrat from Tallahassee. “But I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse. He took a lot from a lot of people. I speak for all men, women and children. He put his foot on our neck. Ron DeSantis and other people like him can suck our cocks.”

Dillbeck was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. Thursday after being convicted of the 1990 fatal shooting of 44-year-old Faye Vann. the Associated Press reports.

He escaped from prison where he was serving a life sentence for an earlier murder when he stabbed a mother-of-two to death in a shopping mall parking lot while trying to steal a car.

Dillbeck was the first inmate to be executed by lethal injection in nearly four years and the third during Mr. DeSantis’ governorship.

In a statement to the AP, Vann’s children Tony and Laura said: “11,932 days ago Donald Dillbeck brutally killed our mother. We were robbed of years of memories with her and it’s been very painful ever since.”

They praised Florida’s governor for giving them some “closure.”

According to reports court filesDillbeck’s crime spree began at age 15 when he stabbed a man in Indiana.

He fled to Florida, where he is shot and killed Lee County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Lynn Hall with his service weapon in a Fort Myers Beach parking lot in 1979. He was sentenced to 11 years to life in prison for the murder before escaping in 1990 while on a work-release program.

Two days later, he approached Vann in a Tallahassee parking lot and asked for a ride, according to court records. When she tried to raise the alarm and drive away, he stabbed her 20 times and cut her throat.

Dillbeck crashed a car shortly after and was arrested while trying to flee on foot.

Earlier this month, the Florida Supreme Court rejected a request for clemency on the grounds that Dillbeck suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome. His latest appeal was rejected by the US Supreme Court on Wednesday.