Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ staff bristled online at a Huffinton Post headline about the execution Thursday night of Donald Dillbeck, who became the state’s first death-row inmate to be executed in three years.
DeSantis’ team objected to the framing of the Huffington Post article, the headline of which reads “Florida Executes Man Used As ‘Political Pawn’ By Ron DeSantis.”
“We stand firmly behind HuffPost’s award-winning reporting on the criminal justice system,” a spokesperson for HuffPost said.
Dillbeck was convicted of killing two people two years ago by a non-unanimous jury. He killed Fay Vann, whose family thanked DeSantis for carrying out the death sentence.