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Death Row, the Literal Way: Oldest FL Death Row Inmate Dies

Death Row - San Quentin Prison
Death Row – San Quentin Prison

The oldest prisoner on Florida’s death row has died, but not of actual execution; rather, Gary Alvord, who had been on death row for 40 years, died of old age Sunday.

Myfoxorlando reports that for almost 40 years, Alvord waited out a death sentence he received for the 1973 murders of 3 women in Tampa.

The reason he was never executed: mental illness.
Read more on the death of the oldest death row inmate here.

 

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