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Man Convicted Of Murdering Prison Guard Is Executed
January 8, 2014
A man convicted of killing a prison guard while already on Death Row was executed Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke. Askari Abdullah Muhammad, 62, died at 6:45 p.m., according to a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections.
He was put to death for fatally stabbing corrections officer Richard James Burke with a sharpened spoon in October 1980.
Muhammad, who was formerly known as Thomas Knight, was initially convicted of kidnapping and killing Sydney and Lillian Gans in 1974. He also escaped from the Dade County Jail while awaiting trial and was involved in a liquor store robbery in Cordele, Ga., where two clerks were shot, with one killed.
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6 Responses to “Man Convicted Of Murdering Prison Guard Is Executed”
If he had been executed years ago, that correction officer would be alive today. Why on God’s green earth was he allowed to live, at the tax’s payers expense, that long after what he did. This is stupid. Oh, I’m sorry, you can’t fix stupid.
Really people these are the same dumb people that changed the electric chair to lethal injection dead is dead how u get there shouldn’t matter if u want them there
holy cow …..we fed and took care of this guy for 40 years after he murdered someone ….let’s see …..at $42,000 a year , thats $1,680,000 …..do yu think that we might have spent that money on something more useful ?….come on people …we need to get our state govt. to change this ….gridlock in TLH ….worse than Washington ? …
4 killings before he was killed for one of them
A wasted life and lives thrown away
David for better people
fewer killers
I agree 110%….Trash like this needs to be put to death the day after they are convicted …he should not be able to be breathing the air that he took from the people he killed…they didn’t have a chance so why should he.
1974 was his first murder conviction. Killed 5 folks total. 40 years later for justice. Wow…………………………