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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.
Florida statute also provides the death penalty for capital drug trafficking and discharging or using a destructive device causing death. A provision for capital sexual battery was found unconstitutional in the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court case Kennedy v. Louisiana. No one is on death row in the United States for drug trafficking.
Date of execution Name Race Age at execution Age at offense State Method Ref. 1 November 2, 1984 Margie Velma Barfield: White 52 45 North Carolina: Lethal injection [3] 2 February 3, 1998 Karla Faye Tucker: 38 23 Texas [4] 3 March 30, 1998 Judias "Judy" V. Buenoano: 54 28 Florida: Electrocution [5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 ...
Nearly four decades after murdering a mother and a teenage babysitter in Palm Beach County, Duane Owen was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison.
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Cole's death also marked Florida's 106th execution since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 and executions resumed in the state in 1979.
Judias Anna Lou "Judy" Buenoano (born Judias Welty, also known as Judias Goodyear and Judias Morris; April 4, 1943 – March 30, 1998) was an American serial killer who was executed in Florida for the 1971 murder of her first husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted of the 1980 murder of her son, Michael Buenoano, and of the 1983 ...
Cole was reportedly the first inmate from Florida with his execution date set in 2024 and would be the ninth person slated for execution during DeSantis's tenure as governor of Florida; [55] the last execution in Florida occurred on October 3, 2023, when 54-year-old Michael Duane Zack III was executed for murdering two women in 1996.