Inmate-Turned-Killer Gets His Execution Wish
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A man who said he killed a fellow prison inmate so the state of Florida would give him the death penalty was executed.
John Blackwelder, 49, received a lethal injection of chemicals at Florida State Prison in Starke, a spokesman for Gov. Jeb Bush said.
Blackwelder was convicted in the May 2000 strangling of Raymond Wigley, 39, who was serving a life term for murder.
At the time of Wigley’s killing, Blackwelder faced life without parole for a series of sex convictions. He said he killed Wigley and pleaded guilty to first-degree murder because he wanted to die but couldn’t bring himself to commit suicide.
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