A Florida man who set his neighbor on fire after she found him burglarizing her home during her lunch break from work has been executed.
Chadwick Scott Willacy, 58, received a three-drug injection starting at 6pm at Florida State Prison near Starke for the 1990 killing of Marlys Sather.
He was pronounced dead at 6:15pm. Sather’s only son, John, was present during Tuesday’s execution and watched Wallacy draw his final breath.
Willacy’s last words were apologies to his family and friends along with words of encouragement to his ‘brothers on the row.’ Willacy maintained his innocence and said he would never kill his friend.
‘To the victim’s family, I hope this brings you peace. If it does, that’s good,’ he said. ‘But this is not right.’
Court records indicate Sather had returned to her Palm Bay home for her lunch break on September 5, 1990, and found Willacy burglarizing her home.
He struck her in the head with a blunt object, fracturing her skull, and then bound her hands and ankles with wire and tape, according to investigators.
Willacy attempted to strangle Sather with a telephone cord, and when that didn´t work, he doused her in gasoline and set her on fire.
Chadwick Scott Willacy
An autopsy determined that Sather had died from smoke inhalation, indicating she was still alive when she was set ablaze.
Willacy also stole Sather’s car and other items from her home, and used the woman’s ATM card to steal cash, officials said.
When Sather failed to return from her break, her employer caller her family. Her son-in-law went to check on her and found her body.
Willacy was sentenced to death a year later upon a 9-3 jury recommendation after being convicted of first-degree murder, burglary, robbery and arson.
Then in 1994, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing because the trial judge failed to allow defense attorneys a chance to rehabilitate a potential juror who indicated she could not recommend the death penalty.
Willacy again drew the death penalty at resentencing in 1995 on the 11-1 recommendation of a new jury.
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