Pinellas County residents protest Florida's sixth execution this year
More than 27 years after he sexually assaulted and murdered a woman he met at an Escambia County bar, Michael Zack III was put to death by lethal injection last night at Florida State Prison. Local groups opposed to the death penalty held vigils across the state of Florida. 54 year old Zack was injected with a lethal dose of chemicals until he was pronounced dead less than 15 minutes after the execution began around 6pm last night. Allandale United Methodist Church and Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, or FADP, held a moment of silence for Zack, who was denied a stay of execut...