A former Sergeant of the United States Air Force who killed his wife and two young children will be executed by lethal injection in the southern state of Florida on Thursday.
Edward Zakrzewski, 60, declared himself guilty of the murders of June 1994 of his wife, Sylvia, son Edward, 7, and daughter, Anna, 5.
His wife was beaten with a lever, strangled with a rope and beaten with a machete.
The two children were pirate until death with the machete, which Zakrzewski had bought during his lunch after being informed that his wife planned to divorce him.
Zakrzewski fled to Hawaii and changed his name after the murders, but turned four months later after being identified by friends on a television program called “Uncoloid mysteries.” Zakrzewski will run at 6:00 pm (3:00 am PKT) in Florida state prison in Raiford.
There have been 26 executions in the United States this year, mostly from 28 executions of 2015.
Twenty -one injection have been carried out by lethal injection, two have skyrocketed and three by nitrogen hypoxia, which implies pumping nitrogen gas in a facial mask, which makes the prisoner asphixie.
The use of nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment has been denounced by experts in the United Nations as cruel and inhuman.
Florida has carried out most executions in 2025 – eight.
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states, while three other California, Oregon and Pennsylvania have moratoriums instead.
President Donald Trump is a defender of capital punishment, and on his first day in office he requested an expansion of its use “for the most vile crimes.”
