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I have focused a lot on women in horror and murder this month and will do a few more articles about those terrifying women before the month is out, but I wanted to focus today a man executed in Florida in 1990. Why Florida? Because the story of his execution is horrific and unbelievable. Jesse Joseph Tafero (October 12, 1946), his wife Sonia, their two children, and friend Walter Rhodes were asleep in a parked car. This seemingly abandoned car was noticed by police officers Phillip Black and Donald Irwin. Black knocked on the car window and saw the gun on the floor of the car too late. Tafero fired the weapon killing Black at point blank range and then opened fire on Irwin. After the double murder, the murderous crew and their children stole the police car, sped away and were finally captured at a road block. Tafero had a long criminal record consisting of mostly armed robberies. He
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I have focused a lot on women in horror and murder this month and will do a few more articles about those terrifying women before the month is out, but I wanted to focus today a man executed in Florida in 1990. Why Florida? Because the story of his execution is horrific and unbelievable. Jesse Joseph Tafero (October 12, 1946), his wife Sonia, their two children, and friend Walter Rhodes were asleep in a parked car. This seemingly abandoned car was noticed by police officers Phillip Black and Donald Irwin. Black knocked on the car window and saw the gun on the floor of the car too late. Tafero fired the weapon killing Black at point blank range and then opened fire on Irwin. After the double murder, the murderous crew and their children stole the police car, sped away and were finally captured at a road block. Tafero had a long criminal record consisting of mostly armed robberies. He
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