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If Cole is put to death, it will mark Florida's 106th execution since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY.
Georgia (1972), essentially ruling the imposition of the death penalty at the same time as a guilty verdict unconstitutional, Florida was the first state to draft a newly written statute on August 12, 1972, [5] and all 96 death row inmates (95 male and 1 female) were commuted to life in prison.
A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has died in prison, officials said. Paul Beasley Johnson, 74, died Saturday while receiving ...
On Jan. 11, 2001, 17 years after Ritchie’s murder, Glock was executed by the state of Florida, but not before he married a steelworker from Indiana in prison, and not before a last meal ...
The Florida Supreme Court ordered an evidentiary hearing to assess his sanity, and he was quickly deemed sane. [4] He was sent to death row at Florida State Prison near the town of Starke in 1982. Medina's last words before being executed on March 25, 1997, were, "I am still innocent."
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. The total amounts to 106 people. Of the 106 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 62 have been executed by lethal injection .
Owen was sentenced to death for the murders and was executed in 2023. [2] On March 24, 1984, Owen stabbed to death and raped 14-year-old Karen Slattery in Delray Beach. [3] Two months later, on May 29, he raped and beat to death 38-year-old Georgianna Worden in Boca Raton. [3] Owen was arrested the day after Worden's murder on a burglary charge ...
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