(October 25, 2006)--Danny Harold Rolling was executed Wednesday evening in Florida for the 1990 murders of five college students.

The killings paralyzed Gainesville.

The students' bodies, some mutilated, posed and sexually assaulted, were found over a three-day period in August and September 1990.

Rolling had been in jail for a supermarket robbery when investigators used DNA to link him to the killings.

He shocked everyone in 1994 by pleading guilty to the five slayings, telling the judge, "There are some things you just can't run from, this being one of those."

Rolling's lawyers had asked the US Supreme Court to stop the execution on the grounds that the chemicals used in Florida's execution process can cause severe pain.

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