{"id":414211,"date":"2026-09-29T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414211\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:58:17","slug":"execution-marks-floridas-16th-of-2026-and-seventh-inmate-over-70-put-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414211\/","title":{"rendered":"Execution marks Florida\u2019s 16th of 2026 and seventh inmate over 70 put to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 77-year-old Florida man convicted of killing a woman with a hammer was executed Tuesday evening after spending the last 28 years on death row.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Wilkie Beasley became the 7th prisoner over the age of 70, and the 16th prisoner overall to be executed by the state of Florida in 2026. He received a three-drug lethal injection at the state prison at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Beasley was convicted on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and grand theft in connection to the 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/grappler-device-wraps-rear-tire-to-end-pursuit-man-arrested-without-incident-florida-news-florida-crime-hcso-hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grappler device wraps rear tire to end pursuit; man arrested without incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In August of 1995, Monfort\u2019s body was found in her Orlando home by her daughter. She had suffered multiple blunt-force trauma injuries to the head, and a bloody hammer was also found on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>After the murder, Beasley had traveled to Miami in Monfort\u2019s vehicle and relocated to Alabama under a fake name before being arrested. He was sentenced to death in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 77-year-old Florida man convicted of killing a woman with a hammer was executed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-414211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414211","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=414211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}