Florida State Prison

His final appeals denied, 63-year-old David Pittman died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at Florida State Prison.

Samuel Smithers, 72, was convicted of killing Denise Roach and Christy Cowan at a secluded property where he worked as a caretaker.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kayle Bates' attorneys told justices that state prosecutors denied the jury truthful information necessary to a realistic understanding of his potential sentences.

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.

Edward Zakrzewski is scheduled for lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday for using a crowbar, rope and machete to murder his wife and two children in 1994 in their Okaloosa County home.

Michael Bell was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison. Another inmate, Edward Zakrzewski, is scheduled to be the ninth put to death this month.

Michael Bell would be the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with Edward Zakrzewski scheduled to be the ninth later this month. The state executed six people in 2023 but only one last year.

Edward J. Zakrzewski II pleaded guilty to strangling his wife to death and using a machete to kill his two children in Okaloosa County. He is slated for execution July 31.