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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.
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 244 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
On December 3, 2024, 49-year-old Christopher Leroy Collings was put to death via lethal injection at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] In his last words, Collings expressed remorse and accepted responsibility for the crime, and apologized for the pain he caused.
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
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.
Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the ...
The second youngest person to be executed, and the youngest to have a confirmed birth date (of October 21, 1929), was George Stinney, who was electrocuted in South Carolina at the age of 14 on June 16, 1944, after the bodies of two children (ages 7 and 11) were found close to his home. George Stinney maintained his innocence throughout his ...
Will's mother, Dana Reeve, was diagnosed with lung cancer and died in March 2006 at 44, just 17 months after Christopher's death. (Christopher shared his older two children with ex-partner Gae Exton.)