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Florida executed the condemned killer, Ronald Heath, on Tuesday after he spent nearly four decades on Death Row. He was twice convicted of separate murders 12 years apart, and identified as the suspect in a third murder case that never went to trial.
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Ronald Palmer Heath was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and other charges in the 1989 killing of Michael Sheridan.
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Samuel Lee Smithers was one of the oldest inmates put to death. His lethal injection extended the state's record for executions in a year to 14, with two more slated in the weeks ahead.
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Victor Tony Jones, 64, received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison near Starke.
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His final appeals denied, 63-year-old David Pittman died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at Florida State Prison.
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Samuel Smithers, 72, was convicted of killing Denise Roach and Christy Cowan at a secluded property where he worked as a caretaker.
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Victor Tony Jones, 64, is scheduled to die Sept. 30. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant the day after the state carried out the year's 11th execution, with the 12th slated for Sept. 17.
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Windom received a lethal injection for the 1992 Winter Park murders of girlfriend Valerie Davis, the woman’s mother and the man he said owed him $2,000.
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Curtis Windom is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison after his final appeals were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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It was Florida’s 10th execution of 2025 and further extended the state's record for the number of executions carried out in a single year.
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Kayle Bates' attorneys told justices that state prosecutors denied the jury truthful information necessary to a realistic understanding of his potential sentences.
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Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Thursday following a three-drug injection. Florida has executed more people than any other state this year and has two more executions set for August.