Serial Killer Executed In Florida

[The Straight Story]

Serial Killer Executed In Florida

POSTED: 2:35 pm EDT October 25, 2006
UPDATED: 6:33 pm EDT October 25, 2006

Danny Harold Rolling, Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, was executed by lethal injection Wednesday for butchering five college students in a ghastly string of slayings that terrorized Gainesville in 1990.

Rolling, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. EDT, more than 16 years after his killing rampage at the start of the University of Florida's fall semester.

The bodies of his victims were found over three days in late August, just as the University of Florida's fall semester was beginning. All had been killed with a hunting knife. Some had been mutilated, sexually assaulted and put in shocking poses. One girl's severed head had been placed on a shelf, her body posed as if seated.

Death Row officials said Rolling was calm and cooperative. He spent several hours Wednesday with his brother Kevin, and his brother's pastor, Jim Wallingworth.

Rolling had his last meal at lunchtime Wednesday as the clock ticked down to his execution. He had lobster tail, butterfly shrimp, baked potato, strawberry cheesecake and sweet tea shortly before noon.

http://www.local6.com/news/10156559/detail.html

[porphyrian]

1. Assuming they got the right guy, he was a twisted fucker.

I personally don't support the death penalty because a) it isn't meted out fairly, b) there is an unacceptable amount of convictions given to the wrong person and the death penalty can't be reversed, and c) ideologically, killing someone is not a good way to show that killing is wrong. I can understand why the families of the victims would want him dead, though.