Florida executing prisoners at record pace

NEW: As most states move away from the death penalty, Florida is executing more prisoners than ever before. Last year, 19 people were put to death — shattering the state’s previous annual record of 11, first set in 1936. with @nytimes.com

"Florida has executed nine men this year, more than all other states combined... Death watch, once a lonely way station, has begun to resemble an assembly line." NEW work from the inimitable @pamelacolloff.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/flor...

19 in 2025, 9 already in ‘26. 60% receive the death penalty from judges based on non-unanimous jury recommendations. At the same time, Florida leads the nation in death row exonerations (30 since ‘73)—wrongfully convicted men, later cleared of all charges.

Wow, this piece by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social: Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty

Capital punishment is on the decline throughout the US -- except in #Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSastrous has gone on a death warrant spree. The Sunshine State accounted for 40 percent of all executions in the United States in 2025. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/m... via @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

Prisons in America are a disgrace. A prisoner was eaten alive by bugs. Texas and Florida don't have AC so prisoners get the death penalty every year no matter their conviction. People aren't safe in state custody. Seriously. This is one issue most of us can agree on. Overhaul the whole system.

~ Florida Is Using the Death Penalty More Than Ever Before — ProPublica ~ https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-death-penalty-executions-ron-desantis

Ron DeSantis’s Florida has the most prisoners on death row exonerated yet they race to kill the most people. The death penalty is unnecessary and so not Christian.

One more reason why I could never live in Florida. The governor is an asshat and I simply do not have the capability of so many snowbirds that can easily look the other way to all the conservative bullshit, the book bannings, executions forced prayer in schools, uber control! I would go mad.

I say let Florida keep the death penalty till we can convict DJT of child molestation and murder then reform it. Dig up zorro ranch release all the files unredacted!

They had Police at the polling booths, with warrants, profiling the voters; in Florida, a state with an active approach to the death penalty, was probably more hazardous to voters than soldiers with guns. And let's not forget the saga of the hanging chads.

It’s ironic that so many Epstein billionaires live in Florida. Intuitively, states that allow the death penalty would execute the Epstein crime ring. Florida won’t, because its death penalty law is legal cover for lynching of colored people.