DeSantis signs warrant for 22nd Florida execution of the year
Willie Seth Crain, 80, was convicted in the 1998 disappearance of 7-year-old Amanda Brown, and exonerees are asking Gov.-elect Byron Donalds to pause executions.
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Willie Seth Crain, 80, was convicted in the 1998 disappearance of 7-year-old Amanda Brown, and exonerees are asking Gov.-elect Byron Donalds to pause executions.
Sharon MacIvor says "closure" may not be the right word, and she plans to be a voice for her parents, who died before the death warrant was signed.
Florida has carried out a record-tying 19th execution of the year as three states were administering the death penalty on the same day.
Thomas Overton, 70, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing Michael and Missy MacIvor, who was eight months pregnant, and the state executed William Reaves a day earlier.
Florida carried out its 18th execution this year under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' aggressive use of the death penalty.
"He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," President Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Florida executed a man who killed his cellmate to get a death sentence, the first state execution since the botched Christa Pike attempt.
President Trump said he approved of livestreaming the execution, but suggested the decision may not be final.
Hours before DeSantis' action, the Florida Supreme Court denied William Lee Thompson's motion for a stay.
Attorneys for Christa Pike, the Tennessee inmate who survived two doses of a lethal injection during her botched execution last week, shared an update on her health condition.
Christa Pike, a death row inmate who was subject to a failed execution attempt in Tennessee last week, is conscious and speaking from her hospital bed, her attorneys said Tuesday.
Jesse Guardado, 64, is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 5 and would be the 20th person put to death in Florida this year, topping the 19 carried out in 2025.
Christa Pike "remains critically ill" and is receiving medical care after a botched execution attempt in Tennessee, her attorneys said.
The warrant signed by DeSantis is for James "Chicken Head" Robertson, 63, who is set to be the first of two executions to occur by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Stark on Oct. 13.
Tennessee canceled its remaining scheduled execution this year after Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, survived two doses of a botched lethal injection. A witness said she was "clearly very alive."
Attorneys for Christa Pike, who survived an attempt by the state of Tennessee to put her to death, say they warned that her execution could be botched in exactly the way it was.
Curtis Wilkie Beasley, 77, became the 16th person executed in Florida this year after he was convicted of killing Carolyn Monfort in 1995.
William Reaves is set to be executed on Oct. 20 for shooting Deputy Richard Raczkowski 4 times in the back.
William Lee Thompson, 74, has now received 3 death warrants from Florida governors for the murder of Sally Ivester.
A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the "Hog Trail Murders" in the 1990s became the state's 15th person executed this year.
Daniel Conahan Jr., 72, was sentenced to death for the April 1996 killing of Richard Montgomery.
A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting a 16-year-old girl who rejected his romantic advances and wounding two of her friends was executed Tuesday afternoon.
Curtis Beasley is set for execution on Sept. 29 and is the 16th death row inmate to receive a warrant in Florida this year.
William Frances Silvia was the 13th prisoner put to death this year in Florida, which has two more executions scheduled in September.
Tennessee and Oklahoma executed inmates within 30 minutes of each other on Thursday, followed by Alabama later in the day.
