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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.
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.
On June 22, 2023, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed Barnes's death warrant. Barnes was scheduled to be executed on August 3, 2023. [1] [14] His older sister Beth Catron wanted the execution to proceed and said of her brother's impending execution, "Our family is glad the nightmare will soon be over, and maybe we'll be able to sleep in peace ...
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.
On June 25, 10 of the 12 jurors voted Wilson should be executed for killing Ruiz. Jurors voted nine to three in favor of the death penalty for Melton's slaying.. Until April 2023, Florida juries ...
Michael Duane Zack III, who was convicted of the 1996 killings of two women he met at bars along the Florida Panhandle, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Florida State Prison ...
[82] After his execution, Chandler was described as the "loneliest man in the loneliest place on earth, death row"; he did not receive a single visitor during his years in Florida's death row unit. [82] Another of Chandler's daughters, Suzette, said her father was a monster who got what he deserved. [83] [84]
Florida’s lethal injection process is being challenged by a group of Death Row prisoners who say it is cruel and unusual punishment. Florida’s lethal injection process is being challenged by a ...