A Florida man convicted in the 1996 kidnapping and strangulation of a victim as part of the notorious Hog Trail Murders is set to become the state’s 15th person executed this year. Authorities linked the case to a series of suspected killings in the 1990s, with multiple remains discovered in a wooded area over a three-year period. The condemned man, now in his 70s, was sentenced to death for his role in the crime. His execution by lethal injection marks another milestone in Florida’s capital punishment record.
Daniel Owen Conahan Jr’s sentence will make him the state’s 15th person executed this yearA Florida man was scheduled for execution on Thursday after being convicted of one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the Hog Trail Murders in the 1990s.Daniel Owen Conahan Jr, 72, was sentenced to die by lethal injection for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery. Authorities found Montgomery’s mutilated body in a wooded south-west Florida area where the remains of at least six people have been found over a three-year span. Continue reading...
