Overview
- The execution, which is scheduled Thursday, would be Florida’s 15th this year as the state has sharply increased its use of capital punishment.
- Conahan was convicted by a judge in August 1999 for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery and was sentenced to death.
- The Florida Supreme Court last week denied Conahan’s final appeals, including a request for further testing of DNA evidence from the victim.
- Conahan has long maintained his innocence and was publicly named a person of interest in other mid‑1990s killings but was never charged in those cases.
- The broader 'Hog Trail Murders' involved multiple bodies found in swampy hunting areas and investigators concluded victims within a 10‑mile radius were likely killed by the same person.