LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) – Polk Sheriff Grady Judd remembers several brutal murders that impacted Mulberry in 1990. Decades later, he went to the Florida State prison in Bradford County to witness the execution of 63-year-old David Pittman.

A jury convicted and sentenced Pittman to death in 1991 for killing his wife’s parents, Clarence and Barbara Knowles. He also killed his wife’s sister, Bonnie, and set their house on fire.

Prosecutors said the three were killed during the time the couple was going through a divorce and Pittman threatened to harm her loved ones.

John Stewart is a volunteer with Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. He had hoped that Gov. Ron DeSantis would avoid signing a death warrant over claims Pittman has intellectual disabilities.

“He has intellectual d

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