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Governor DeSantis approves eighth Florida execution of 2025, tying state record

Governor Ron DeSantis has approved Kayle Barrington Bates’s execution, which will match the record for the most executions in ...
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Florida has an execution scheduled this evening and another later this month

Barring a reprieve, Michael Bell will become the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with Edward Zakrzewski ...

Florida execution marks 26th in U.S. this year, surpassing total for all of 2024

A man who fatally shot another man and a woman outside a Florida bar as part of an attempted revenge killing was executed ...

Florida's Michael Bell set for execution today. See Treasure Coast inmates on death row

Florida is set to execute its eighth inmate in 2025. Since 1939, five people from Treasure Coast have been executed. See how ...
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Florida Set to Execute Man Convicted in 1982 Bay County Murder, Gov. DeSantis Approves 10th Death Penalty This Year

Florida schedules the execution of Kayle Bates for the 1982 murder of Janet White, marking the state's increase in capital ...

Execution date set for Florida man convicted of kidnapping, killing woman

Bates, 67, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Aug. 19 at Florida State Prison. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant last Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 ...