Death Penalty

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.

The state of Florida carried out its seventh execution of 2025 on Tuesday. An eighth is scheduled, which would be the most in one year since the death penalty was reinstated. Why so many?

Michael Bell's attorney raised a series of issues with the Florida Supreme Court, including that witnesses recently recanted testimony that helped convict his client 30 years ago.

Attorneys for Thomas Gudinas, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, want the state to turn over records related to the governor's "process for determining who lives and who dies."

Michael Bell, 54, is scheduled to die by lethal injection July 15 for the mistaken-revenge killing of two people outside of Jacksonville bar in 1993.

Thomas Gudinas was convicted in the 1994 murder of Michelle McGrath in Orlando. His representatives argue “evolving standards of decency have rendered the execution of ... constitutionally impermissible.”

Anthony Wainwright is the sixth person put to death in Florida this year, and another execution is scheduled for later this month. He was convicted of killing Carmen Gayheart in 1994.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Anthony Wainwright's appeal, allowing the state to carry out his scheduled execution on Tuesday.

Glen Rogers, found guilty of the 1995 fatal stabbing of a woman in a Tampa motel room, will be put to death Thursday night.

Glen Rogers is slated to be executed on May 15 for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs in a Tampa motel room.

Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson was convicted in the 1998 murders of his girlfriend and her three children in the home they shared in Crestview.

Edward James, 63, made no statement before the three-drug injection, and officials reported no complications. It was the state's second execution this year, with a third is slated for April 8.