USA - Florida. Larry Eugene Mann, 59, white, was executed.

Larry Eugene Mann, 59, white, was executed. In 1981, Mann was convicted of killing 10-year-old Elisa Nelson, who was last seen on Nov. 4, 1980. Mann kidnapped her near the school, cut her throat and then beat her head with a pipe, then he went home and tried to kill himself. Shortly before Mann was scheduled to be executed, roughly a dozen people gathered at an anti-death penalty vigil at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg. Outside the prison, there were 43 people gathered in favor of the execution and, in a separate area, 38 people were protesting the death penalty. Mann's 1981 death sentence was overturned once because the trial court made a legal error. He was resentenced to death, and the Supreme Court then affirmed that punishment. Elisa's murder wasn't Mann's first brush with the law. He molested a 7-year-old girl several years before Elisa's death, prosecutors said. And at the time of Elisa's murder, he was on parole for a 1973 rape in Mississippi. Mann becomes the 1st inmate to be put to death this year in Florida, the 75th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1979, the 7th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1327th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.