Florida man, age 77, becomes 16th person to be executed in state this year

Curtis Wilkie Beasley executed for 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort, after US supreme court declines to interveneA 77-year-old Florida man was put to death on Tuesday for his conviction in a deadly hammer attack on a woman decades ago, becoming the 16th person executed this year in the nation’s busiest death chamber.Curtis Wilkie Beasley was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a lethal injection at the Florida state …