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The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information may become outdated.
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 107 people. Of the 107 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 63 have been executed by lethal injection .
Ford’s execution was the first in Florida in 2025. One person was put to death in 2024, down from six in 2023, when Gov. Ron DeSantis was campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination.
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
Florida executed James Dennis Ford on Thursday for the savage murders of two young parents in front of their toddler daughter in 1997. Ford was on death row for more than two decades for the 1997 ...
Florida death row inmate James Dennis Ford was so overcome with grief after his father's death, his former wife says she would find him in the cemetery at night, lying on his dad's grave and ...
At some point the Broward Correctional Institution housed female death row inmates, but the female death row was moved to the Lowell Annex in February 2003. [13] [14] Unlike other prisoners, inmates on death row wear orange over shirts but still wear the same blue trousers worn by other inmates. [15]
In 2000, when Florida lawmakers proposed a bill on capital punishment, pertaining to the reform of appellate processes to shorten the length of stay on death row, Greg Malnory's mother Connie Jo Ankney, spoke up to support the bill, given that she did not wish to see Ford spend more than 20 years on death row (the average stay was around 14 ...