Death Warrant

William Reaves was Florida’s eighth prisoner over age 70 to be executed this year in the nation's busiest death chamber.

James Robertson, 63, was pronounced dead after receiving a three-drug injection. He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and waived all appeals in the 2008 strangling of Frank Hart.

In a Sept. 17 order, Gov. Ron DeSantis commissioned a panel of psychiatrists to examine William Lee Thompson's mental condition, noting that counsel alleged “Thompson may be insane.”

There are changes to eligibility which could make it more challenging for SNAP recipients. In turn, local food banks are feeling the pressure of increased demand.

The 19 executions carried out by the state in 2025 were the most for a single year in Florida since capital punishment was revived after a four-year hiatus in 1976 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Custis Beasley became the state's seventh prisoner over 70 put to death this year. The state Supreme Court recently rejected appeals that executing a man his age with cognitive decline would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

Williams Reaves shot Deputy Sheriff Richard Raczkowski four times in the back outside a Zippy Mart convenience store near Vero Beach in 1986.

William Lee Thompson, 74, is slated for lethal injection on Oct. 13 for the murder, kidnapping and sexual battery of Sally Ivester. It's the 17th death warrant signed this year by the governor.

Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. had been sentenced to die for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery

Harold Gene Lucus was condemned for the 1976 shooting death of 16-year-old Jill Piper and the wounding of her friends, Richard Byrd Jr. and Terri Rice, in Bonita Springs.

Two other lethal injections are scheduled before Curtis Beasley's on Sept. 29. He was found guilty of killing Carolyn Monfort, 62, of Dundee. Beasley is slated to be the 16th person executed in the state this year.

William Frances Silvia, 61, was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and the attempted murder of her mother in 2006.