More than two decades after tossing an Ohio mother and her two daughters overboard from his boat to their horrific deaths, Oba Chandler finally paid the ultimate price.
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The 65-year-old convicted triple murderer was put to death by lethal injection late this afternoon at Florida State Prison in Starke.
He died as he has spent the last 17 years in prison -- alone. Chandler had never had a visitor during his time on death row. And that didn't change today.
Hal Rogers, husband and father of the victims, sat in the front row of the small viewing room outside the death chamber. On either side of him sat relatives and prosecutors who tried the case and sent Chandler to death row. Of the 32 witnesses, only his attorney in the death-appeals process, Baya Harrison, was there to support him.
A couple of feet in front of Rogers, Chandler lay on a gurney, his arms strapped down and a sheet covering nearly his entire body. Only his face and massive arms were uncovered.
"Inmate Chandler, do you have any last statement you'd like to make," the team warden in the room asked him.
Without opening his eyes or looking at anyone, Chandler said simply, "No."
The drugs to end his life began flowing at 4:08. He was pronounced dead 17 minutes later.
Though Chandler had nothing to say to witnesses before he was executed, he did leave a written statement behind.
"Oba Chandler last statement. You are killing a innocent man today."
It is not known how long before the execution that the note was penned.
Earlier in the day, between 10 and 11 a.m., Chandler, the smooth-talking con man who lured three tourists onto his boat and then killed them more than two decades ago, ate his final meal...read more
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