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Former Long Island man executed in Florida

Published: February 15, 2012 10:20 PM
By ZACHARY R. DOWDY  zachary.dowdy@newsday.com

Robert Waterhouse is convicted of a murder/rape of

Photo credit: Florida Department of Corrections | Robert Waterhouse is convicted of a murder/rape of a woman in St. Petersburg. The man had been convicted of a 1966 murder of an East End woman. (Feb. 15, 2012)

A former Long Island man who was convicted in 1967 of sexually assaulting and killing an elderly Greenport woman was executed in Florida Wednesday night, 32 years after he beat, raped and drowned another woman in that state.

The state of Florida put Robert Brian Waterhouse, 65, to death by lethal injection at 8:22 p.m. at the Florida State Prison at Starke, correction officials said.

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