Without Florida, the national execution rate would be like an average year, with fewer than 30 executions across the country.

Across the country, dozens of organizations connect people on the outside with death row inmates through pen pal programs.

With 8 Coller and Lee county men living on Florida's death row, Gov. Ron DeSantis set record for executions in 2025 ...

In 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed death warrants for 19 people, nearly 4 times as many as any other state. List of executions ...

The state led the nation in executions with 19 people put to death, some of whom committed crimes in the Tampa Bay area ...

Florida executed a record-breaking 19 death row inmates in 2025, nearly doubling the national average, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center. This surge in executions comes ...

Read full article: Judge demands DNA evidence list in Tommy Zeigler case Death row inmate William "Tommy” Zeigler, photographed at age 75. WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – For the first time in decades, a judge ...

A 58-year-old Florida death row inmate claimed that prison officials used expired drugs and skimped on the doses for the last four executions in the state, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed a ...

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Expanding a modern-era record for executions in a year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted of murdering a Bay County woman in 1989. Mark Allen Geralds is ...

STARKE, Fla. — A condemned man on Florida’s death row is awaiting to hear his fate from the U.S. Supreme Court. Frank Athen Walls was convicted of killing a couple during a home invasion in Okaloosa ...

Florida’s Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida's Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries ...