Florida carried out the execution of 65-year-old Melvin Trotter on Tuesday evening, marking the state’s second execution of the year. Trotter was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. ET at Florida State Prison after receiving a lethal injection for the 1986 killing of a beloved local grocery store owner. Trotter was convicted in the death of […] Florida Executes Melvin Trotter For 1986 ‘Sadistic’ Murder Of Elderly Shopkeeper ...read more read less