News reported just now

[snowybirdie]

Florida just executed a,man who committed murder 45 years ago when he was 15 years old.
That is all.

[pdxflyboy]

1. Florida's "pro life" governor

Could have stopped it. Fu__ing hypocrites, all of them.

[SoCalDavidS]

7. Pro-Life & Pro-Gun. Such A Lovely Combination. nt

[malaise]

2. Sick fucks

That is all

[The_Counsel]

3. Wait...I Thought Florida STOPPED Executions 35 Years Ago...

Wasn’t Ted Bundy the last one, or some shit?

And yeah, you’d have to be some kind of hypocritical sumbitch to call yourself “pro-life” and yet still support state-sanctioned executions—no matter how much the condemned may have “had it coming…”

[SickOfTheOnePct]

14. Florida is one

Of the most executing states out there.

[multigraincracker]

4. We need to end the death penalty.

It serves no purpose, other than revenge.

[Coventina]

5. Always and forever against the DP, regardless of circumstances. n/t

[Biophilic]

6. Good grief, one more thing that I can't get my head around.

I don’t know if it’s myself or the world, but today seems to be filled with news that makes my breathing stop and my heart pound. 45 years for a murder he committed when he was 15? I just can’t get my head around the cruelty and evilness of this. I just can’t.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

12. Luckily you don't have to

Since that’s not what happened .

[Biophilic]

26. Thanks for the update. Appreciate it.

[spanone]

8. State Sanctioned Murder

[GGoss]

16. Yep...

[John1956PA]

9. He was executed for a second murder he committed when he was an adult.

At age 15, he killed a deputy. When he was in his late twenties, he killed a woman motorist.

[allegorical oracle]

10. Believe DeSatan will move briskly through Death Row. Won't be surprised if he brings back other

forms of execution (i.e. firing squad, hangings, electric chair). Trump came out earlier in the week threatening more executions when he's re-elected, so Ron must get into the "who's the toughest guy?" race.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. I am unshakeable anti-death penalty for ANY reason.

As I said in another thread, if you must murder in my name, the firing squad is likely the most humane.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

11. He was executed

But not for the murder he committed when he was 15. He was executed for the murder he committed when he was 26…which he did after escaping from prison during his sentence for the first murder.

[brooklynite]

13. You may object to capital punishment, but he doesn't deserve a memorial...

At the time of the murder, Dillbeck had escaped from a work-release catering job in Gadsden County, where he was serving a life sentence for killing Lee County Deputy Dwight Lynn Hall, 31, in 1979, when he was 15.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2023/02/23/donald-dillbeck-florida-execution-latest-updates/69904871007/

[ColinC]

17. Had he been rich, he likely would have gotten off.

One of the biggest problems with the death penalty is as long as you have money, you'll likely evade it. We need the same rules for the poor as we do for the rich.

https://www.straightdope.com/21343781/have-any-millionaires-ever-been-executed-in-the-united-states

[brooklynite]

19. How many millionaires commit murder?

Particularly murdernof people they’re unrelated to.

[ColinC]

20. There are plenty of examples in the link I shared

A good lot of them were hate crimes. But also consider some of the high profile ones like oj simpson and Scott Peterson (who was originally sentenced to death but resentenced in 2021 to 17 years). The death penalty is almost never even pursued against the rich like it is the poor.


There aren’t many millionaires who commit murders but those who committed some far more heinous than the one shared above, were almost guarantees to not get the death penalty.

[brooklynite]

21. The death penalty wasn't applied in this case either (originally)

He was sentenced to life in prison, and then committed a second murder.

If he can't be kept from committing violent crime in prison, the next stage would be to keep him in solitary, which someone would likely complain about as well.

[ColinC]

22. Still, while millionaires don't commit a lot of murders

(There aren’t very many in the first place), those who do commit murders are very unlikely to get the death penalty.

[Earth-shine]

15. No, that's not all -- so I'm glad I read the story elsewhere.

It had been 32 years since Dillbeck was sentenced to death, and Lamb wasn’t his only victim. At the time of her murder, Dillbeck had escaped from a work-release catering job in Gadsden County, where he was serving a life sentence for killing Lee County Deputy Dwight Lynn Hall, 31.

“One person’s bad enough. But he did two, and he did the second brutal,” Rogers said of Dillbeck’s victims. “Nobody should ever be ecstatic about somebody being put to death, but there had to be consequences.”

[snowybirdie]

23. Our local news

Emphasised his murder charge at 15 because it was of a local police officer. It was a misleading report. This person was, admittedly, a bad guy who should be incarcerated for life, but what good did his execution serve? Over 30 years of appeals ect. won't deter a single crime.

[Earth-shine]

24. Seems to me the death penalty is inappropriate here.

[rubbersole]

25. Agree.

Bundy though....