David Alan Gore Executed after 28 Years on Death Row

Condemned murderer David Alan Gore, whose crimes at the northern end of the Treasure Coast nearly three decades ago were called heinous by Gov. Rick Scott, was executed Thursday night.

Gore, 58, was put to death by lethal injection just after 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Stark.

Gore spent 28 years on death row for the 1983 death of 17-year-old Lynn Elliott in Vero Beach.

In addition to his death sentence, Gore was serving five other life prison terms for the first-degree deaths of five other women in Indian River County between 1981 and 1983.

Scott was the second governor to sign a death warrant for Gore. Former Gov. Bob Martinez twice issued warrants for Gore, in 1988 and 1989.