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David Funchess

1947–1986

United States

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David Livingston Funchess (March 16, 1947 – April 22, 1986) was an American war veteran, self-confessed war criminal, and convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Florida. Funchess was convicted of and sentenced to death for the 1974 murders of 52-year-old Anna Waldrop and 56-year-old Clayton Keaton Ragan during a robbery of his former workplace. Funchess also severely injured 62-year-old Bertha McLeod, who died of her injuries in 1977; however, Funchess never went to trial or received a conviction in McLeod's murder.

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