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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.
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 ...
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.
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
Cole was the first and only death row prisoner from Florida, as well as the 13th out of the 25 convicts in the U.S. to be executed during the year of 2024. [81] [82] Cole’s execution was the 106th execution in Florida since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. [83]
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Cole was one of three women on Florida's death row, the others being Margaret Allen and Tina Brown, each sentenced to death in unrelated murders. [11] [12] Of the previous 14 women [citation needed] ever sentenced to death in Florida since the 1976 Gregg v. Georgia ruling, two were executed (Judy Buenoano in 1998, and Aileen Wuornos in 2002).
The Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for scores of death row inmates to receive new sentencing hearings, while denying such relief in older cases. Florida court ruling may spare scores on ...