Crime History – Botched execution sparkschange in Florida death row

Published July 8, 2010 4:00am ET



On this day, July 8, in 1999, Allen Lee Davis was executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last time Florida used the electric chair.

Davis, 54, was put to death for the murders of a pregnant woman, Nancy Weiler, and her two daughters during a robbery in 1982.

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