Murderous Florida Death Row Inmate Who Slaughtered His Ex's Parents Slated To Die Next Month
Law Enforcement Today
Aug 20, 202
David Pittman
RAIFORD, FL – A 63-year-old inmate currently housed at the Florida State Prison is slated to be executed in September
in connection to the triple homicide he committed back in 1990 where he
killed the parents and younger sister of his estranged ex-wife before burning their house to the ground.
Back in 1991, David Pittman was convicted of the murder of his ex-wife’s younger sister and her two parents, being handed down a death sentence on the three counts of first-degree murder, as well as grand theft and arson.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the convicted killer’s death warrant on August 15th, which notes his scheduled execution date as September 17th, however, an appeal is expected to be filed with both the state and U.S. Supreme Court in effort to block the execution.
Apparently, the Florida Supreme Court had already denied a claim made by Pittman in 2022 that he “was intellectually disabled” at the time of the incident and that proper evidentiary hearings were not adhered to in regard to the intellectual disability claims.
In May of 1990, Pittman, a three-time convicted felon out of Florida who’d served three prior sentences in the 1980s for burglary, aggravated assault, and grand theft, was in the midst of a divorce with his wife Marie when he took the lives of her family.
Pittman arrived at the home of Marie’s parents in Polk County and fatally stabbed Clarence and Barabara Knowles, while slitting the throat of Marie’s younger sister, Bonnie.
According to testimony delivered at Pittman’s trial by a jailhouse informant, “Bonnie let Pittman in the house and, when she refused his sexual advances, he killed her to stop her cries for help. Pittman then admitted to killing Barbara Knowles in the hallway outside Bonnie’s bedroom and to killing Clarence in the living room as Clarence tried to use the phone. Pittman also told Hughes that he burned the house, stole the Toyota and abandoned it on the side of the road.”
Pittman made several attempts to deflect blame in the triple homicide case, at one point claiming another death row inmate’s stepson admitted to having “killed three people in a failed burglary attempt and that he then burned the house,” suggesting the hearsay proved his innocence.
However, Pittman’s efforts to place the blame on a fellow inmate’s stepson were ultimately unfruitful.
Back in 1991, David Pittman was convicted of the murder of his ex-wife’s younger sister and her two parents, being handed down a death sentence on the three counts of first-degree murder, as well as grand theft and arson.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the convicted killer’s death warrant on August 15th, which notes his scheduled execution date as September 17th, however, an appeal is expected to be filed with both the state and U.S. Supreme Court in effort to block the execution.
Apparently, the Florida Supreme Court had already denied a claim made by Pittman in 2022 that he “was intellectually disabled” at the time of the incident and that proper evidentiary hearings were not adhered to in regard to the intellectual disability claims.
In May of 1990, Pittman, a three-time convicted felon out of Florida who’d served three prior sentences in the 1980s for burglary, aggravated assault, and grand theft, was in the midst of a divorce with his wife Marie when he took the lives of her family.
Pittman arrived at the home of Marie’s parents in Polk County and fatally stabbed Clarence and Barabara Knowles, while slitting the throat of Marie’s younger sister, Bonnie.
According to testimony delivered at Pittman’s trial by a jailhouse informant, “Bonnie let Pittman in the house and, when she refused his sexual advances, he killed her to stop her cries for help. Pittman then admitted to killing Barbara Knowles in the hallway outside Bonnie’s bedroom and to killing Clarence in the living room as Clarence tried to use the phone. Pittman also told Hughes that he burned the house, stole the Toyota and abandoned it on the side of the road.”
Pittman made several attempts to deflect blame in the triple homicide case, at one point claiming another death row inmate’s stepson admitted to having “killed three people in a failed burglary attempt and that he then burned the house,” suggesting the hearsay proved his innocence.
However, Pittman’s efforts to place the blame on a fellow inmate’s stepson were ultimately unfruitful.
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