Allen Davis was executed by the State of Florida for three murders.
According to court documents Allen Davis would murder Nancy Weiler, who was three months pregnant, as well as her daughters Kristina, age 9, who was shot twice in the face, and Katherine, age 5, who was shot as she tried to run away and then had her skull beaten in with the gun.
Allen Davis would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Allen Davis would be executed by way of the electric chair. The execution did not go well as blood came out of his nose and he had burns to this body
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Allen Davis Case
The last execution in Old Sparky was that of Allen Lee Davis on July 8, 1999
On May 11, 1982, Allen Lee Davis brutally beat three-months-pregnant Nancy Wheeler to death with a .357 Magnum handgun. Wheeler was nearly unrecognizable after at least 25 bashes to the head with the weapon. Davis shot her two daughters, 10-year-old Kristina and 5-year-old Katherine, to death. Katherine was shot in the back of the head as she tried to run away from Davis. When she fell to the ground, Davis bashed her head in with the butt of the gun.
At the time of the murders, Davis was out of prison on parole after an armed robbery conviction.
Weighing nearly 350 pounds, Davis was too large to fit the traditional electric chair. Officials did not replace the chair as recommended, however, did maneuver around and replace wooden parts. None of the electrical components were replaced.
On July 8, 1999, shortly after 7 a.m., Allen Lee Davis was put in the new Florida State Penitentiary electric chair to serve out his sentence of death for the senseless crime. But, something went wrong and Davis suffered a nosebleed and burns to his head, leg and groin area before he died.
He roared unintelligibly, twice, after a strap was wrapped tightly across his mouth and his head was covered with a skullcap and hood. After the electrocution lever was pulled at 7:10 a.m., Davis’ back straightened, his hands clenched and his chest seemed to expand. His body came to rest and blood appeared on the front of his shirt. Initially, a red dot appeared in the center of his chest.
The stain slowly grew to a splotch about 8 inches across. His chest heaved repeatedly; he appeared to still be alive. But he was pronounced dead at 7:15
Witnesses say that after the power to the electric chair was switched off, Davis took 10 more breaths and his chest moved. Protestors were outraged by the incident, to which Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth commented, “People who wish to commit murder, they’d better not do it in the state of Florida because we may have a problem with the electric chair
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