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A Florida judge on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for the random 2019 killings of two Southwest Florida women. Wade Steven Wilson, reportedly tied to a white supremist gang, was ...
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.
The death penalty in Florida has a thorny history in recent years. For decades, jurors in South Florida only had to issue a bare minimum — at least seven of 12 votes — to recommend execution ...
Jurors voted 9-3 to recommend Zephen Xaver receive the death penalty for the Jan. 23, 2019, murders at the SunTrust Bank in Sebring, about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of Tampa. Xaver, 27 ...
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.
Florida has high level of exonerations from death row
On April 6, 1997, a married couple were attacked and murdered during their fishing trip by a known acquaintance at a fish farm in Charlotte County, Florida. [2]On that day itself, 25-year-old Gregory Philip Malnory Jr. (commonly known as Greg Malnory) and his 26-year-old wife Kimberly Ann Malnory (or Kim Malnory) were invited over to the South Florida Sod Farm by Greg's 37-year-old co-worker ...
Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v. Arizona , 481 U.S. 137 (1987) – Death penalty may be imposed on a felony-murder defendant who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibits ...