A 62-year-old Florida death row inmate convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her three children in 1998, was executed by lethal injection, which took less than 15 minutes.
On the night of his execution at Florida State Prison, Hutchinson declined to give a final statement but appeared to mumble quietly as the drugs were administered, according to the Daily Star.
Witnesses described his legs shaking and brief spasms before he was pronounced dead at 8:15 p.m., just 15 minutes after the procedure began. His last meal included salmon, mahi-mahi, asparagus, a baked potato, and iced tea.
Jeffrey Hutchinson was sentenced to death in 2001 for fatally shooting his girlfriend, Renee Flaherty, and her three children—Geoffrey, 9, Amanda, 7, and Logan, 4—after a domestic dispute.
Though Hutchinson's defense cited Gulf War Syndrome as a factor in his mental state, the court ultimately rejected those arguments.
Prosecutors said Hutchinson returned to the family's home armed with a shotgun and killed the victims one by one, including Geoffrey, who witnessed the aftermath before he was shot.
The execution marks Florida's fourth in 2025 and the fifteenth nationwide this year. A fifth Florida execution—of Glen Rogers, a convicted serial killer—is scheduled for May 15.
Originally published on Lawyer Herald
