{"id":79335,"date":"2026-09-29T21:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/florida-man-age-77-becomes-16th-person-to-be-executed-in-state-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:54:59","slug":"florida-man-age-77-becomes-16th-person-to-be-executed-in-state-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/florida-man-age-77-becomes-16th-person-to-be-executed-in-state-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man, age 77, becomes 16th person to be executed in state this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis Wilkie Beasley executed for 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort, after US supreme court declines to intervene<\/p>\n<p>A 77-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> man was put to death on Tuesday for his conviction in a deadly hammer attack on a woman decades ago, becoming the 16th person executed this year in the nation\u2019s busiest death chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Wilkie Beasley was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a lethal injection at the Florida state prison near Starke, authorities said. He was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery and grand theft auto in the 1995 hammer attack on Carolyn Monfort at her home south of Orlando.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/29\/curtis-wilkie-beasley-executed-florida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis Wilkie Beasley executed for 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort, after US supreme court declines to intervene A 77-year-old Florida man was put to death on Tuesday for his conviction in a deadly hammer attack on a woman decades ago, becoming the 16th person executed this year in the nation\u2019s busiest death chamber. Curtis Wilkie &#8230; <a title=\"Florida man, age 77, becomes 16th person to be executed in state this year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/florida-man-age-77-becomes-16th-person-to-be-executed-in-state-this-year\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida man, age 77, becomes 16th person to be executed in state this year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}