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List of people executed in Florida. The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. The total amounts to 105 people. Of the 105 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 61 have been executed by lethal injection.
Death of Frank Valdes. Frank Valdes. On July 17, 1999, death row inmate Frank Valdes (October 28, 1962 – July 17, 1999) was killed at Florida State Prison in Bradford County. That morning, nine correctional officers, carrying stun guns, [ 1] entered his cell and beat him to death. [ 2]
Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 84 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.
James Phillip Barnes, 61, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison in Starke. He would be the fifth person put to death in the state this year.
The Florida Department of Corrections ( FDC) is the government agency responsible for operating state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in the state capital of Tallahassee . The Florida Department of Corrections operates the third largest state prison system in the United States. As of July 2022, FDC had an inmate ...
Death of Darren Rainey. Darren Rainey (January 12, 1962 – June 23, 2012) died at the Dade Correctional Institution (Dade CI) in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, [1] on June 23, 2012. [2] The prison is in proximity to Florida City, and is south of Homestead . In 2014, Dade CI prisoner Mark Joiner accused prison authorities of fatally ...
Life imprisonment (June 6, 1979) Death (March 15, 1991) Donald David Dillbeck (May 24, 1963 – February 23, 2023) was an American convicted murderer executed by the state of Florida for killing a woman in a Tallahassee mall parking lot in 1990 after escaping from prison, where he was serving a life sentence for killing a deputy sheriff in 1979.
Georgia (1972), essentially ruling the imposition of the death penalty at the same time as a guilty verdict unconstitutional, Florida was the first state to draft a newly written statute on August 12, 1972, [5] and all 96 death row inmates (95 male and 1 female) were commuted to life in prison.