Florida executed Chadwick Scott Willacy on April 21 for the 1990 murder of his neighbor, marking the state’s fifth execution of the year, as the victim’s family called the long-awaited sentence justice.

Chadwick Willacy maintained his innocence before Florida executed him for the first-degree murder of elderly neighbor Marlys Sather, set on fire in 1990.

Chadwick Willacy bludgeoned, strangled, and robbed Marlys Mae Sather before setting her on fire while she was still alive.

The State of Florida is moving forward with the execution of 58-year-old Chadwick Scott Willacy this evening, as a legal battle over lethal injection records reaches its final hour. Willacy is scheduled to die by a three-drug injection at 6:00 p.

Florida plans to execute Chadwick Willacy on April 21 for the 1990 murder of Marlys Sather, amid legal scrutiny of the state’s lethal injection protocol. The Florida execution by lethal injection follows Willacy’s first-degree murder conviction,

Chadwick Willacy, 58, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison after the Supreme Court denied a stay in the 1990 Palm Bay killing.

Willacy was the eighth person executed this year in the US and the fifth in Florida, the latest casualty of an accelerating machinery of death overseen by Governor Ron DeSantis.

Florida made its fifth execution of the year, as it saw Chadwick Scott Willacy given a three-drug injection for killing Marlys Sather in a horrific attack more than 30 years ago