Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida has seen a dramatic increase in the number of executions. The state put to death 19 inmates in 2025, more than double the ...

Florida nearly doubled the national average of executions in 2025, with a record-breaking 19 death warrants carried out, according to an annual report released by the Death Penalty Information Center.

Oct. 15 (UPI) --Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old death row inmate for the 1996 murders of two women, as the state continues its record pace of executions. Samuel Smithers was put to death by ...

Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dusty Ray Spencer A 74-year-old Florida man was executed on Thursday for his conviction in the 1992 fatal stabbing of his wife, ...