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So far in 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed eight death warrants, tying a record for a single year. Here's a look at who's ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In the wake of a landmark Florida Supreme Court decision, dozens of death row inmates in the state seeking resentencing now don't know what their future holds.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant ... His execution is set for July 31, just two weeks after the one that is set for death row inmate Michael Bell on July 15. Most recently, the ...
More than three decades after killing his wife and two young children, former Florida airman Edward J. Zakrzewski II is ...
On June 24, death row inmate Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, ...
Inmate William Thomas "Tommy" Zeigler, photographed on Florida's Death Row in Union Correctional Institution, Raiford, Fla. on June 21, 2018. Zeigler was convicted of the murders of his wife, in ...
Paul Durousseau, 52, another former Florida death row inmate, said eight jurors was not enough to impose the death penalty, adding that it gives “all power to the state.” ...
James Rose, 78, South Florida’s longest-serving death row inmate, was sentenced in 1977 by Broward Circuit Judge M. Daniel Futch Jr. for the November 1976 kidnapping and murder of Lisa Berry, an ...
In 2015, Florida death-row inmate Wayne Doty asked the state to execute him by electrocution rather than lethal injection. It’s believed to be the first such request since inmates were given a ...
Lawyers for a death row inmate in Florida are trying to stay his execution next week, arguing that it would be unconstitutional given the prisoner’s morbid obesity, which could complicate his ...
Paul Durousseau, 52, another former Florida death row inmate, said eight jurors was not enough to impose the death penalty, adding that it gives “all power to the state.” ...