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13 cze 2013 · William Van Poyck and Frank Valdes ambushed a prison van outside a West Palm Beach doctor's office in a failed attempt to free James O'Brien - with whom they'd served time.
William Van Poyck, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:24 p.m., 23 minutes after the injection process began at Florida State Prison. “Set me free,” were his final words. Van Poyck's case garnered international attention because he published three books and maintained a blog while on death row.
I have self-published an award-winning autobiography, A Checkered Past, and a novel, Quietus, and several of my short stories have been published in various literary journals. I maintain a blog, www.deathrowdiary.blogspot.com, and my column appears at www.deathrowspeaks.info.
11 cze 2013 · Long before the prison guard was executed in the botched jailbreak and William Van Poyck, blood-streaked and clutching a pistol, zipped his Cadillac through West Palm Beach blasting several slugs into pursuing cop cars, there were clues of the impending chaos.
1 lis 2022 · After waiting nearly three decades for the 58-year-old Van Poyck to be killed for murdering prison guard Fred Griffis in a botched attempt to free a Glades Correctional Institution inmate,...
13 cze 2013 · A Florida man was executed Wednesday for the murder of a guard during a botched 1987 prison van ambush intended to free an imprisoned friend. William Van Poyck, 58, was pronounced dead at...
13 cze 2013 · William van Poyck. As exonerated Florida death row inmates Seth Penalver and Herman Lindsey joined a vigil and protest across from the Florida State Prison near Starke Wednesday evening,...
