ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a St. Petersburg woman accused of suffocating her 4-year-old son, Finley, in January, Pinellas County court records show.<\/p>\n
Diana Cullom, 44, was charged with first-degree murder in the boy\u2019s Jan. 27 death. <\/p>\n
Her 16-year-old daughter told police that when she returned home from school, she found her mother, bloody from self-inflicted stab wounds, holding her brother in bed, Patch previously reported. <\/p>\n
Cullom admitted to killing her son by suffocating him with a plastic bag, police said in her arrest affidavit. <\/p>\n
She told investigators that she had thoughts of killing the boy the night before and the day of his death. <\/p>\n
Cullom is being held at Pinellas County Jail without bond. <\/p>\n
State Attorney Bruce Bartlett filed an April 1 notice of intent to seek the death penalty in the case. <\/p>\n
In the notice, the state attorney\u2019s office said that it can prove that the boy\u2019s death \u201cwas a homicide and was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification.\u201d<\/p>\n
His death is also a \u201ccapital felony [that] was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel,\u201d the office added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a St. Petersburg woman accused of suffocating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-234347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}