Newton Carlton Slawson, convicted of killing 4 members...

Newton Carlton Slawson, convicted of killing 4 members of a family and a fetus, was executed by injection after a 13-hour delay while his mental competency was questioned. Slawson was pronounced dead at 7:10 a.m., officials said. The execution came 14 years after the killings and 6 years after he began the process to drop his court appeals. Slawson, 48, was convicted in the April 11, 1989, shooting deaths of Gerald and Peggy Wood, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant, and their 2 young children, Glendon, 3, and Jennifer, 4. Just an hour before Slawson's scheduled execution Thursday, Gov. Jeb Bush issued a temporary stay so that 3 psychiatrists could examine whether Slawson was competent to be executed. Those psychiatrists reported to Bush around midnight and said they found Slawson aware of what the death sentence meant. Slawson becomes the 2nd person executed this year in Florida, and the 34th this year in the USA.