- Chadwick Scott Willacy, 58, is scheduled for execution by three-drug injection on Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison for the 1990 murder of Marlys Sather.
- Willacy was convicted of first-degree murder, burglary, robbery, and arson after Sather discovered him burglarizing her home during her lunch break.
- Court records indicate Willacy struck Sather, bound her, attempted to strangle her, then doused her in gasoline and set her on fire, with an autopsy confirming she died from smoke inhalation.
- He was initially sentenced to death in 1991, then resentenced in 1995 after a Florida Supreme Court order for a new sentencing hearing.
- This execution marks Florida's fifth in 2026, following a record 19 executions in the state last year under Governor Ron DeSantis.
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