As the inmate with the longest tenure on death row in the nation, Sullivan was also the 199th convict to die since 1924 in Florida’s electric chair. Sullivan was pronouned dead at 10:16 a.m.Ī former Howard Johnson’s restaurant manager, Sullivan, 36, became the ninth murderer in the United States to be executed since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976. One minute later, a black-hooded executioner unleashed the massive jolt of electricity. God save us all,” according to Patrick Riordan, a spokesman for the governor Robert Graham told prison Superintendent Richard Dugger by telephone, “There are no stays. “I plead and encourage a continued effort to end this monster called capital punishment.”Īs two dozen witnesses watched, Sullivan’s head was covered with a black hood.
“To all my peers on death row, despite what is about to happen to me, do not quit,” Sullivan said, according to prison spokesman Vernon Bradford.
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