Lethal Injection

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.

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.

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.

Dusty Ray Spencer has spent more than three decades on Death Row for murdering his wife in Orange County.

Opponents of the death penalty say Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has more authority than other states' top officials in approving death warrants, a factor driving the high number of executions.

Dusty Ray Spencer, who was found guilty in the beating death of his wife, Karen, is scheduled to die June 25. The next Florida execution scheduled is for Andrew Lukehart on Tuesday.

Richard Knight was convicted of murder in the June 2002 killings of Odessia Stephens and her young daughter, Hanessia Mullings.

James Ernest Hitchcock received a lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison for the July 1976 killing of Cynthia Driggers

Chadwick Willacy, 58, received the three-drug injection for the 1990 killing of Marlys Sather. It was the state's fifth execution in 2026 following a record 19 executions last year.