TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) -- A Florida Panhandle man is set to be executed Thursday for raping and murdering his 10-year-old stepdaughter 22 years ago, minutes after he killed her mother.
Chadwick Banks, 43, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke for the 1992 slaying of Melody Cooper, who was found on her knees naked from the waist down and her body slumped on her bed at a Gadsden County home.
The body of her mother, Cassandra Banks, was nearby. Banks, who was 21 at the time, admitted to the killings and is serving a life sentence for the death of his wife.
It would be the 18th execution carried out since Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011.
