27 May 2021 :
Billy Wells sentenced to death after his seventh murder conviction.
Man serving life sentence for murder of 6 people given death penalty for killing 7th. Wells, 45, White, killed his wife and four other family members in May 2003. He pleaded guilty to the five murders in 2003 in exchange for the state waiving the death penalty. Melissa Nelson, who was an assistant state attorney at the time and assigned to prosecute the case, said at the time that the victims’ family had asked for a life sentence instead of death. Wells was given another life sentence for killing an inmate in 2011. But after his conviction on a seventh murder -- killing fellow Florida State Prison inmate William Chapman in 2019 -- a judge on Tuesday has sentenced Wells to death. In sentencing Wells in Bradford County, Circuit Judge Mark Moseley wrote: “The aggravating circumstances far outweigh the mitigating circumstances which the court has heard and considered.” Wells has repeatedly told prosecutors he wants to be executed.
https://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2021/05/florida-man-serving-life-sentence-for.html
https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2021/05/25/man-serving-life-sentence-for-murder-of-6-people-given-death-penalty-for-killing-7th/
