Florida executes elderly inmate for brutal murder of mom

Florida has executed a 77-year-old death row inmate in the state's third execution this month.

Florida executed Curtis Beasley by lethal injection on Tuesday, Sept. 29, for the brutal 1995 murder and robbery of 62-year-old Carolyn Monfort, a mother of three he had been living with at the time. Beasley, who has always maintained his innocence, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. ET.

Beasley's execution is the latest in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' aggressive push to clear out the state's death row of inmates, many of whom are now elderly and were sentenced as many as five decades ago.

Of the 29 executions carried out by six states so far this year, Florida's account for 16. That's 55%. Of the Florida inmates put to death so far, 10 were over the age of 64, including Beasley. That's 63%.

Beasley was among a growing number of elderly death row inmates whose physical and mental ailments have raised questions about the logic and ethics of executing people who either no longer understand what they did or are so ill that natural causes are soon to kill them.

DeSantis has said that meeting with the loved ones of victims reinforced his determination to…

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