It’s. About. Time. HOORAY Governor DeSantis!
OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Governor Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant on Tuesday for Frank Athen Walls.
Walls is being executed for the July 22, 1987, murders of 20-year-old Eglin Air Force Base airman Edward K. Alger and his 22-year-old girlfriend Ann Louise Peterson.
Walls broke into their mobile home in Ocean City, tied them up with curtain cords, then killed them. He slashed Alger’s throat, then shot him three times.
Walls assaulted Peterson, then shot her twice in the head. He then stole Alger’s wallet, cleaned up, and went to a strip club where he spent Alger’s money.
Authorities consider Walls to be a serial killer.
Walls was 17 years old when he committed his first murder on Okaloosa Island.
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On March 26, 1985, walls spotted 19-year-old junior college student Tommie Lou Whiddon sunbathing. He cut her throat and left her to bleed to death on the beach.
On September 16, 1986, Wall stabbed 24-year-old Cynthia Sue Condra 21 times and left her body on the side of a road in the Wright community.
On May 20, 1987, Walls broke into the mobile home of 47-year-old waitress Audrey Gygi in Fort Walton Beach, raped her, and then stabbed her to death.
After he was convicted of killing Alger and Peterson, Walls pleaded no contest to killing Gygi in exchange for avoiding trial, and he admitted to killing Whiddon and Condra in exchange for the state not prosecuting.
Walls’ execution date is now set for Thursday, December 18th at 6 p.m. Eastern Time.
Signing the death warrant sets off a series of court appeals to prevent the state from putting walls to death.