<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spenkelink" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Spenkelink">John Spenkelink</a>, a convicted murderer, is executed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Florida">Florida</a>; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.<sup about="#mwt58" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_25#cite_note-10" id="mwASc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASg">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt55" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFCurry1979">Curry, Bill (1979-05-26). <a class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/05/26/convicted-murderer-executed-by-florida/6610a1bd-c62c-43ec-8c2e-134733c09d6f/" id="mwB28" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Convicted Murderer Executed by Florida"</a>. <i id="mwB3A">Washington Post</i>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISSN_(identifier)" id="mwB3E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a><span id="mwB3I" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0190-8286" id="mwB3M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">0190-8286</a><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB3Q">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB3U">2018-03-25</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt55" class="Z3988" id="mwB3Y" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Washington+Post&amp;rft.atitle=Convicted+Murderer+Executed+by+Florida&amp;rft.date=1979-05-26&amp;rft.issn=0190-8286&amp;rft.aulast=Curry&amp;rft.aufirst=Bill&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Farchive%2Fpolitics%2F1979%2F05%2F26%2Fconvicted-murderer-executed-by-florida%2F6610a1bd-c62c-43ec-8c2e-134733c09d6f%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+25"></span></span>