Army veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson, to whom the Gulf War caused serious mental problems, executed on Thursday evening in Florida, USA for killing her girlfriend and her three young children with a shotgun in 1998. TASR informs according to AP.
The sixty -two -year -old Hutchinson was executed by a deadly injection in a prison near Starke, Florida. It took approximately 15 minutes to execute the death penalty. It was a fourth prisoner who was executed in this US state since the beginning of the year. The fifth execution is scheduled for 15 May.
Hutchinson has long claimed to be innocent and that the murders were committed by two unknown attackers within the conspiracy of the US government to silence his activism Based on claims, including diseases of veterans from the Gulf War. Hutchinson served in the army for eight years as an elite soldierwrites ap.
However, court records have shown that at night murders in Crestview in Florida Hutchinson quarreled with his girlfriend Renee Flahety († 32), and then packed his clothes and weapons in a truck. Then he went to the bar where he drank beer and then suddenly left.
Shortly thereafter, he called the Operator of the Arbit line 911 and told him he had shot his family. In addition to Flaherty, three children aged four to nine were victims. Police then found Hutchinson in a garage house with a phone still connected to the 911 line and traces of shooting on the hands, adds AP.
