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This subject covers Florida's use of capital punishment, including prisoner executions, court rulings, and annual execution activity.
Florida executed 77-year-old Vietnam veteran William Reaves on Tuesday at a state prison near Starke after a three-drug lethal injection, marking the state's 18th execution of 2026. Reaves was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. after the injection began at 6 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal earlier that afternoon.
Florida state corrections officials executed James Robertson, 63, on Tuesday at Florida State Prison in Raiford after a three-shot series of lethal injections, marking Florida's 17th execution of 2026 and the state's first since Tennessee's failed lethal injection attempt on Christa Pike on September 30.
Curtis Wilkie Beasley, 77, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke on Tuesday and pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m., according to authorities, becoming the 16th person put to death in Florida this year. Beasley was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery and grand theft auto in the 1995 hammer attack on Carolyn Monfort at her home in Dundee, Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene on Tuesday after the Florida Supreme Court rejected arguments that executing a man of his age with cognitive decline would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.