02-23-2018, 12:32 PM
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Eric Scott Branch, 47, (left) was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 7.05pm on Thursday at Florida State Prison after the court rejected his appeals without comment.
He was convicted of the rape and fatal beating of University of West Florida student 21-year-old Susan Morris (right) whose red Toyota he stole. Susan's naked body was found buried in a shallow grave near a nature trail.
Branch's last meal was a pork chop, T-bone steak, French fries and two pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, a Corrections Department spokeswoman said. Just after being injected, he screamed "murderers, murderers, murderers!"
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