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Florida puts ex-police officer to death for girl's murder, first of 2 executions today

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Scoop News DeskFlorida · Published Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM UTCUpdated Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 11:56 PM UTC

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Hours earlier, the state executed a former police officer convicted of the killing of a young girl. Nationwide, an older inmate, 83-year-old Walter Moody Jr., received a lethal injection in Alabama in 2018 for a wave of mail bombs in 1989 that killed a federal judge and wounded a Black civil rights attorney.

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