Donald Dillbeck

Donald David Dillbeck (May 24, 1963 – February 23, 2023) was an American convicted murderer executed by the state of Florida for killing a woman in a Tallahassee mall parking lot in 1990.

This crime occurred after his second escape from prison, where he was serving a life sentence for the 1979 murder of a deputy sheriff.

Someone made a suspicious person complaint about this, and Lee County deputy Dwight Lynn Hall, 31, arrived and questioned him.

He was later given a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence and put in a lower-security facility, where he was disciplined multiple times, including for attempted assault in 1984 and drinking intoxicants in 1985.

On June 24, he approached a woman named Robbie Faye Vann, 44, in her vehicle in the parking lot of the Tallahassee Mall.

Governor Bob Martinez called for tighter custody of inmates and firing of the corrections officers involved.

[4][6] A 1991 article called the case reminiscent of Willie Horton's 1988 furlough by Michael Dukakis's program.

[9] On January 23, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Dillbeck's death warrant, scheduling his execution for February 23.