Jeffrey Hutchinson, a 62-year-old Army combat veteran, was executed in Florida on Thursday for the 1998 shotgun murders of his girlfriend, Renee Flaherty, and her three children, aged 4 to 9. Despite claiming innocence and citing mental health issues related to his Gulf War service, courts upheld his conviction and death sentences after a 2001 trial, where evidence linked him to the crime scene. The execution proceeded after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a final appeal, making Hutchinson the fourth person executed in Florida this year.
