Editing Danny Rolling (section)

== Execution==
Shortly before he was executed in Florida for the series of killings in Gainesville, Rolling claimed responsibility for the Shreveport murders, handing his spiritual adviser Reverend Mike Hudspeth and Florida police a handwritten confession and apology.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kamm |first=Grayson |date=October 27, 2006 |title=Rolling Confessed to Shreveport Killings Before Execution |work=[[WJXX|First Coast News]] |url=http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=67772 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123032912/http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=67772 |archive-date=January 23, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rolling |first=Danny |date=October 25, 2006 |title=Handwritten Letter |publisher=[[Gannett Company]] |url=http://download.gannett.edgesuite.net/wtlv/docs//d9475181027.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=April 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717170310/http://download.gannett.edgesuite.net/wtlv/docs//d9475181027.pdf |archive-date=July 17, 2011}}</ref> Rolling had a [[last meal]] of lobster tail. He sang a [[gospel hymn]], but made no statement immediately before his execution, which was witnessed by many of his victims' relatives.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fisher |first=Lise |date=October 27, 2006 |title=Danny Rolling executed for five student murders |work=The Gainesville Sun |url=https://www.gainesville.com/article/20061026/news/604169997 |access-date=August 7, 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Serial killer Danny Rolling executed in Florida |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna15417276 |access-date=8 November 2023 |agency=NBC News |date=October 25, 2006}}</ref>

Rolling was executed by [[lethal injection]] at [[Florida State Prison]] on October 25, 2006, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal. He was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m EDT.