Death Warrant

Tuesday’s decision came hours after several religious leaders from across the state marched to the Capitol to call on Gov. Ron DeSantis to pause executions.

Florida may carry out more executions in 2025 than in any other year in recent history. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed nine death warrants so far. Seven have been carried out.

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.

Thomas Lee Gudinas marks the seventh person put to death in Florida this year. A total of 23 men have been executed in the U.S. this year, with scheduled executions set to make 2025 the year with the most executions since 2015.

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.”

In briefs filed Sunday and Wednesday, Thomas Gudinas’ attorneys argued that executing him “would serve no purpose beyond base vengeance.”

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

Anthony Wainwright faces a lethal injection Tuesday for a 1994 murder. In another death warrant appeal, Thomas Gudinas has asked the Florida Supreme Court to have his mental illness reevaluated.