Jesse Tafero
American murderer
Died when: 43 years 204 days (522 months)Star Sign: Libra
Jesse Joseph Tafero (October 12, 1946 – May 4, 1990) was convicted of murder and executed via electric chair in the U.S. state of Florida for the murders of 39-year-old Florida Highway Patrol officer Phillip A.
Black (who served 9 years with Florida Highway Patrol) and 39-year-old Ontario Provincial Police Corporal Donald Irwin (who served 18 years with Ontario Provincial Police), a visiting Canadian constable and friend of Black.
The officers were killed during a traffic stop where Tafero, his wife Sunny Jacobs and their children were passengers.Tafero's execution was botched; his head burst into flames during the execution by electric chair.
After Tafero's execution, the driver, Walter Rhodes, confessed to shooting the officers, but later retracted his testimony.
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