{"id":6815,"date":"2025-08-01T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:40:33","slug":"inmate-who-killed-wife-and-children-had-chilling-final-words-before-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6815","title":{"rendered":"Inmate who killed wife and children had chilling final words before execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"150\"><strong data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"150\">Florida Executes Death Row Inmate Edward Zakrzewski After Two Decades<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"418\">Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was executed in Florida on July 31\u2014over 20 years after being convicted of murdering his wife and two children in 1994. He became the ninth person executed in the state this year, setting a new annual record, with two more executions scheduled.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"634\">After the killings, Zakrzewski fled to Hawaii and evaded capture for four months until a minister recognized him on <em data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"556\">Unsolved Mysteries<\/em>. He later confessed, saying he&#8217;d rather kill his family than allow a divorce.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"889\">His final meal included fried pork chops, root beer, and ice cream. His chilling last words: \u201cI want to thank the good people of the Sunshine State for killing me in the most cold, calculated, clean, humane, efficient way possible. I have no complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"891\" data-end=\"971\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Florida is on pace to surpass Texas in executions for the first time since 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Executes Death Row Inmate Edward Zakrzewski After Two Decades Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was executed in Florida on July 31\u2014over 20 years after being convicted of murdering his wife and two children in 1994. He became the ninth person executed in the state this year, setting a new annual record, with two more executions scheduled&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6815\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Inmate who killed wife and children had chilling final words before execution&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/6818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}