John Blackwelder - Florida

As expected, the State of Florida executed John Blackwelder at 6:13pm EDT tonight. This quote from the CNN.com article linked below kind of sums up what I think about Blackwelder's execution:

"The message goes out to every lifer in the state," said Abe Bonowitz, executive director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. "If you don't like your life in prison, kill a prison worker or kill a fellow inmate and the state will assist in your suicide."

Florida executes man who wanted death sentence