Richard Knight, 47, died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison Thursday for the 2000 murders of Coral Springs, Fla., woman and her 4-year-old daughter. Photo courtesy Florida Deptatment of Corrections
May 21 (UPI) -- Florida death row inmate Richard Knight was executed Thursday, 26 years after murdering a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter, state corrections officials announced.
Knight, 47, died by lethal injection at 6:13 p.m. EST at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Fla., officials said in an issued statement.
Knight was sentenced to death on two counts of premeditated first-degree murder in 2007 for the June 27, 2000, slayings of Odessia Stephens and her daughter, Hanessia Mullings, in Coral Springs, Fla.
Prosecutors said Stephens was the pregnant girlfriend of Knight's cousin and that she had demanded Knight move out of their home, the USA Today Network reported.
