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John Arthur Spenkelink (March 29, 1949 – May 25, 1979) was an American convicted murderer. He was executed in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, and the second (after Gary Gilmore) in the United States.
May 26, 1979 · convicted murderer John A Spenkelink it electrocuted; witnesses to execution describe Spenkelink's death; his family comments; Fla Repr Andy Johnson says he will introduce bill to end...
Sep 23, 1979 · TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 22 (UPI) — John Spenkelink, the condemned murderer, was the target of verbal taunts but not physical abuse as he went to his death in Florida's electric chair,...
May 25, 2008 · John Spenkelink was the first man electrocuted in Florida after a decade-long hiatus in the U.S. death penalty. He was a poor, white drifter who shot a man in the back and resisted death with six years of appeals.
The first to die when executions resumed in Florida was John Spenkelink, a white man condemned for murdering his roommate in a Tallahassee motel.
The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information about capital punishment.…
May 19, 1979 · TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 18 (AP) —Gov. Bob Graham signed death warrants today for two convicted murderers, John A. Spenlcelink and Willie Jasper Darden, and a prison official scheduled their...
