Overview
- Prison officials carried out Conahan's execution by lethal injection Thursday, with time of death reported at 6:12 p.m.
- Conahan was convicted by a judge in August 1999 after waiving a jury on charges of kidnapping and the 1996 strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery.
- The Florida Supreme Court denied his final appeals and a request for more DNA testing, and a last petition to the U.S. Supreme Court did not stop the execution.
- Authorities have long named Conahan a person of interest in multiple 1990s 'Hog Trail' killings of largely homeless men but he was never charged in those additional cases.
- The case renews focus on the Hog Trail murders, a cluster of mutilation deaths found in wooded, swampy areas north of Fort Myers in the mid-1990s, and highlights Florida's high number of executions this year.