9, 2002, (aged 46). Giuseppe Zangara – Electric chair on March 20, 1933, (aged 32), convicted of murder in the assassination of Chicagoan mayor Anton Cermak and who may have been sent to assassinate President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida, on February 15, 1933. Died John Couey – Natural causes in prison on September 30, 2009, (aged 51), died in prison before execution could be carried out. Gerard Schaefer – Murdered by another prisoner on December 3, 1995, (aged 49). Ottis Toole – Cirrhosis in prison on September 15, 1996, (aged 49). Frank Valdes – Stun gunned & beaten with correctional officer boots in prison on July 17, 1999 (aged 36). In popular culture The Mind of Mark DeFriest is a documentary film about Florida State Prison inmate Mark DeFriest. Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "Four Walls of Raiford" tells the story of a convict who escapes from the Florida State Prison; The convict is a veteran returning from the Vietnam War and pleads his case that he was wrongly convicted for armed robbery and asks to be buried with full honors if he gets caught. In Spawn: The Undead Issue #9, the story takes place in Florida State Penitentiary where a death row inmate encounters Spawn. It was referred to in the show Blue Bloods in Season 2 Episode 15 "The Life We Choose". In the 1997 Arthur Hailey novel Detective a police detective in Miami is driven in a marked cruiser for over four hours to hear the confession of a man on death row at Raiford. The book also mentions that Florida State Prison is technically not in Raiford but across the road in the town of Starke. In 2021, Americana/blues artist Shane Kelley released the song "Bradford County Blues" which is the story of a man locked up in Raiford. References External links Florida State Prison —Florida Department of Corrections 1961 establishments in Florida Buildings and structures in Bradford County, Florida Capital punishment in Florida Execution sites in the United States Government agencies established in 1961 Prisons in Florida