Executions

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.

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

Daniel Owen Conahan, 72, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Sept. 10.

Florida put two inmates to death hours apart on Tuesday, marking the first time since 2017 that a state has scheduled two executions in a single day.

The former Florida governor details his platform, policy positions and perspective on the challenges facing the city he calls a "jewel."

Dennis Sochor, convicted of murdering Patricia Gifford in 1982, apologized several times to her family and thanked his own loved ones for their support before the deadly drugs began flowing.

The last prisoner strapped to a table in Florida’s death chamber was 74 years old — the oldest the state has executed in modern times. The next two scheduled for lethal injections are older still.

Justices rejected the motion for a stay in the scheduled execution of Dennis Michael Sochor and lifted a stay that delayed the penalty for James Aren Duckett.