Executions

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Jan. 9 signed a death warrant for Ronald Heath, 64, who would be the first Florida inmate executed in 2026.

Melvin Trotter was sentenced to death in the June 1986 murder of Virgie Langford, 70.

Ronald Palmer Heath is scheduled to die by lethal injection Feb. 10. According to court records, Heath and his brother robbed and killed a traveling salesman they met a bar in 1989.

Florida law allows capital punishment with a jury recommendation of at least 8-4 in favor of execution, the lowest standard in the nation, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Frank Walls' death sentence would be Florida's 19th in 2025, furthering a state record for total executions in a single year. Appeals were still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, was sentenced to death for killing his former manager at a Palatka convenience store.

Frank Athen Walls faces a Dec. 18 lethal injection for the murder of a couple during home invasion robbery. Walls would be the 19th person set for execution in Florida in 2025.

On "The Florida Roundup," Curtisia Windom opens up about discovering her father killed her mother, grandmother and another man.

Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, was sentenced to death twice in Brevard County, both of which were reversed on appeal. A final trial in 1986 brought a third death sentence for the murder of Rebecca Kunash.

Mark Allen Geralds, 58, was convicted in the 1989 murder of Tressa Pettibone in Panama City Beach. He is scheduled for lethal injection on Dec. 9.

Mark Geralds, 58, was found guilty in 1990 of first-degree murder, armed robbery, burglary and grand theft auto. A jury unanimously recommended the death penalty.

DeSantis said he thinks the death penalty could be a “strong deterrent” if sentences were more quickly carried out.