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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.
Fifty-eight-year-old William Van Poyck, sentenced to death in 1988 for the murder of a prison guard, is due to be executed in Florida on 12 June. Claims persist that he received inadequate legal representation at trial and that he was not the “triggerman”. The alleged gunman died in prison in 1999, apparently beaten to death by guards.
20 maj 2020 · My brother, William Van Poyck, is no longer on death row for a murder he did not commit. While the state of Florida executed him on June 12, 2013, his Spirit was set free to soar to a higher place in Peace. Thanks to the many followers of Bill's blog.
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.
13 cze 2013 · (CBS/AP) STARKE, Fla. -- A Florida man was executed Wednesday night for the murder of a guard during a botched 1987 prison van ambush intended to free an imprisoned friend. William Van Poyck,...
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, William...
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.
