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25/05/1979 American murderer John Spenkelink is executed

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John Arthur Spenkelink was a convicted American murderer. He was executed under controversial circumstances in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, and the second, after Gary Gilmore, in the United States.