List of individuals executed in Florida

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The following is a list of individuals executed by the U.S. State of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in 1976.

Florida U.S. state in the United States

Florida is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U.S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area. Tallahassee is the state's capital.

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime. The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes, capital offences or capital felonies, and they commonly include serious offences such as murder, mass murder, aggravated cases of rape, child rape, child sexual abuse, terrorism, treason, espionage, offences against the State, such as attempting to overthrow government, piracy, aircraft hijacking, drug trafficking and drug dealing, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and in some cases, the most serious acts of recidivism, aggravated robbery, and kidnapping, but may include a wide range of offences depending on a country. Etymologically, the term capital in this context alluded to execution by beheading.

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The total amounts to 99 offenders. The last offender to be executed was Gary Ray Bowles.

Gary Ray Bowles American serial killer

Gary Ray Bowles was an American serial killer who was executed in 2019 for the murders of six men in 1994. He is sometimes referred to as the I-95 Killer since most of his victims lived close to the Interstate 95 highway.

List

No.Executed personDate of executionMethodVictim(s)Under Governor
1 John Arthur Spenkelink May 25, 1979 Electric chair Joseph J. Szymankiewicz Bob Graham
2Robert Austin Sullivan [1] November 30, 1983Donald Schmidt
3Anthony Antone [1] January 26, 1984Richard Cloud
4 Arthur Goode [1] April 5, 1984Jason VerDow
5James Adams [1] April 10, 1984Edgar Brown
6Carl Shriner [1] June 20, 1984Judith Ann Carter
7David Leroy Washington [1] July 13, 1984Daniel Pridgen, Frank Meli, and Katrina Birk
8Ernest John Dobbert, Jr. [1] September 7, 1984Kelley Dobbert and Ryder Dobbert
9James Dupree Henry [1] September 20, 1984Zelie L. Riley
10Timothy Charles Palmes [1] November 8, 1984James Stone
11James David Raulerson [1] January 30, 1985 Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff's Officer Mike Stewart
12Johnny Paul Witt [1] March 4, 1985Jonathan Kushner
13Marvin Francois [1] May 29, 1985Livingston Stocker, Henry Clayton, Randolph Holmes, Charles Stinson, Gilbert Williams, and Michael Miller
14Daniel Morris Thomas [1] April 15, 1986Charles Anderson
15David Livingston Funchess [1] April 22, 1986Anna Waldrop and Clayton Ragen
16Ronald John Michael Straight [1] May 20, 1986James Stone
17Beauford White [1] August 28, 1987Livingston Stocker, Henry Clayton, Randolph Holms, Charles Stinson, Gilbert Williams, and Michael Miller Bob Martinez
18 Willie Jasper Darden [1] March 15, 1988James Turman
19Jeffrey Joseph Daugherty [1] November 7, 1988Lavonne Sailer, Betty Campbell, Carmen Abrams, and Elizabeth Shanks
20 Ted Bundy January 24, 1989Kimberly Leach (executed for her murder), Lisa Levy, and Margaret Bowman
21Aubrey Dennis Adams, Jr. [1] May 4, 1989Trisa Gail Thomley
22 Jesse Tafero May 4, 1990 FHP Trooper Phillip Black and OPP Constable Donald Irwin
23Anthony Bertolotti [1] July 27, 1990Carol Ward
24James William Hamblen [1] September 21, 1990Laureen Jean Edwards
25Raymond Robert Clark [1] November 19, 1990David Drake
26Roy Allen Harich [1] April 24, 1991Carlene Kelly Lawton Chiles
27Bobby Marion Francis [1] June 25, 1991Titus Walters
28Nollie Lee Martin [1] May 12, 1992Patricia Greenfield
29Edward Dean Kennedy [1] July 21, 1992Floyd Cone, Jr. and FHP Trooper Robert McDernon, Sr.
30Robert Dale Henderson, Sr. [1] April 21, 1993Murray Ferderber, Dorothy Wilkerson, Ivan Barnett, Marie Barnett, and Clifford Barnett
31Larry Joe Johnson [1] May 5, 1993James Hadden
32Michael Alan Durocher [1] August 25, 1993Joshua Durocher, Grace Reed, and Candice Reed
33Roy Allen Stewart [1] April 22, 1994Margaret Haizlip
34Bernard Bolander [1] July 18, 1995Rudolfi Ayan, Sr., Nico Hernandez, John Merino, and Scott Bennett
35 Jerry White December 4, 1995James Melson
36Philip Alexander Atkins [1] December 5, 1995Antonio Castillo
37John Earl Bush [1] October 21, 1996Frances Julia Slater
38John Mills, Jr. [1] December 6, 1996Les Lawhon
39 Pedro Medina March 25, 1997Dorothy James
40 Gerald Eugene Stano March 23, 1998Cathy Lee Scharf
41Leo Alexander JonesMarch 24, 1998 Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff's Officer Thomas Szarfranski
42 Judy Buenoano March 30, 1998James Goodyear
43Daniel Eugene Remeta [1] [2] March 31, 1998Mearle Reeder, Linda Marvin, Larry McFarland, and Glenn Moore
44 Allen Lee Davis July 8, 1999Nancy Weiler, Kristina Weiler, and Katherine Weiler Jeb Bush
45Terry Melvin Sims [1] [3] February 23, 2000 Lethal injection Seminole County Sheriff's Office deputy George Pfeil
46Anthony Braden Bryan [1] [4] February 24, 2000George Wilson
47Bennie Eddie Demps [1] [5] June 7, 2000Alfred Sturgis, Celia Puhlick, and R.N. Brinkworth
48 Thomas Harrison Provenzano June 21, 2000Deputy Sheriff William Wilkerson, Deputy Sheriff Harry Dalton (died in 1991), Corrections Officer Mark Parker (died in 2009)
49Dan Patrick Hauser [1] [6] August 25, 2000Melanie Rodrigues
50Edward Castro [1] [7] December 7, 2000Austin Carter Scott
51Robert Dewey Glock, II [1] [8] January 11, 2001Sharilyn Ritchie
52Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco [1] [9] October 2, 2002Katixa Ecenarro
53 Aileen Carol Wuornos October 9, 2002Richard Mallory, Dick Humphreys, Charles Carskaddon, Troy Burress, Peter Siems, Walter Jeno Antonio, and David Spears
54Linroy Bottoson [1] [10] December 9, 2002Catherine Alexander
55Amos Lee King, Jr. [1] [11] February 26, 2003Natalie Brady
56Newton Carlton Slawson [1] [12] May 16, 2003Gerald Wood, Peggy Wood, Jennifer Wood, and Glendon Wood
57 Paul Jennings Hill September 3, 2003John Bayard Britton and James Herman Barrett
58 Johnny Leartice Robinson February 4, 2004Beverly St. George
59John Richard BlackwelderMay 26, 2004Raymond D. Wigley
60Glen James OchaApril 5, 2005Carol Skjerva
61 Clarence Edward Hill September 20, 2006 Pensacola, Florida police officer Stephen Taylor
62Arthur Dennis Rutherford [13] [14] October 19, 2006Stella Salamon
63 Danny Harold Rolling October 25, 2006Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Manuel R. Taboada, and Tracy Inez Paules
64 Ángel Nieves Díaz December 13, 2006Joseph Nagy
65 Mark Dean Schwab July 1, 2008Junny Rios-Martinez, Jr. Charlie Crist
66 Richard Henyard September 23, 2008Jamilya and Jasmine Lewis
67Wayne TompkinsFebruary 11, 2009Lisa DeCarr
68 John Richard Marek August 19, 2009Adella Marie Simmons
69 Martin Edward Grossman February 16, 2010Wildlife Officer Margaret "Peggy" Park
70Manuel ValleSeptember 28, 2011Police officer Louis Pena Rick Scott
71 Oba Chandler November 15, 2011Joan Rogers, Michelle Rogers and Christe Rogers
72Robert Brian WaterhouseFebruary 15, 2012Deborah Kammerer
73 David Alan Gore April 12, 2012Lynn Elliot, Hsiang Huang Ling, Ying Hua Ling, Judy Kay Daley, Angelica LaVellee, and Barbara Ann Byer
74 Manuel Pardo, Jr. December 11, 2012Mario Amador, Roberto Alfonso, Luis Robledo, Ulpiano Ledo, Michael Millot, Fara Quintero, Sara Musa, Ramon Alvero Cruz and Daisy Ricard
75Larry Eugene MannApril 10, 2013Elisa Vera Nelson
76Elmer Leon CarrollMay 29, 2013Christine McGowan
77William Edward Van PoyckJune 12, 2013 Florida Department of Corrections officer Fred Griffis
78John Errol FergusonAugust 5, 2013Brian Glenfeldt, Belinda Worley, Livingstone Stocker, Michael Miller, Henry Clayton, John Holmes, Gilbert Williams, and Charles Cesar Stinson
79Marshall Lee GoreOctober 1, 2013Robyn Novick (also killed Susan Roark but was executed for killing Novick)
80William Frederick HappOctober 15, 2013Angela Crowley
81Darius Mark KimbroughNovember 12, 2013Denise Collins
82Thomas Knight (Askari Abdullah Muhammad)January 7, 2014Sydney and Lillian Gans, Florida Department of Corrections officer Richard Burke
83 Juan Carlos Chavez February 12, 2014Jimmy Ryce
84Paul Augustus HowellFebruary 26, 2014 Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Jimmy Fulford
85Robert Lavern HenryMarch 20, 2014Phyllis Harris and Janet Cox Thermidor
86Robert Eugene HendrixApril 23, 2014Elmer Bryant Scott Jr., Michelle Scott
87John Ruthell HenryJune 18, 2014Suzanne Henry and Eugene Christian
88Eddie Wayne DavisJuly 10, 2014Kimberly Waters
89Chadwick Dewellyn BanksNovember 13, 2014Cassandra Banks and Melody Cooper
90Johnny Shane KormondyJanuary 15, 2015Gary McAdams
91Jerry William CorrellOctober 29, 2015Susan Correll, Tuesday Correll, Mary Lou Hines, Marybeth Jones
92Oscar Ray Bolin, Jr.January 7, 2016Teri Lynn Matthews, Natalie Blanche Holley, Stephanie Collins
93Mark James Asay [15] August 24, 2017Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell
94Michael Ray LambrixOctober 5, 2017Aleisha Bryant and Clarence Moore
95Patrick Charles HannonNovember 8, 2017Brandon Snider and Robert Carter
96Eric Scott BranchFebruary 22, 2018Susan Morris
97José Antonio JiménezDecember 13, 2018Phyllis Minas
98 Bobby Joe Long May 23, 2019Artiss Ann Wick, Ngeun Thi Long, Michelle Denise Simms, Elizabeth Loudenback, Vicky Marie Elliott, Chanel Devoun Williams, Karen Beth Dinsfriend, Kimberly Kyle Hopps, Virginia Lee Johnson, Kim Marie Swann and Lisa McVey (survived) Ron DeSantis
99 Gary Ray Bowles August 22, 2019John Hardy Roberts, David Jarman, Milton Bradley, Alverson Carter Jr., Albert Morris and Walter Jamelle "Jay" Hinton

See also

Capital punishment in Florida

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Florida.

Capital punishment in the United States Legal penalty in the United States

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 29 states, the federal government, and the military. Its existence can be traced to the beginning of the American colonies. The United States is the only developed Western nation that applies the death penalty regularly. It is one of 54 countries worldwide applying it, and was the first to develop lethal injection as a method of execution, which has since been adopted by five other countries. The Philippines has since abolished executions, and Guatemala has done so for civil offenses, leaving the United States as one of four countries to still use this method.

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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Ohio.

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Allen Lee Davis American mass murderer

Allen Lee Davis was an American mass murderer executed for the May 11, 1982 murder of Nancy Weiler, who was three months pregnant, in Jacksonville, Florida. According to reports, Nancy Weiler was "beaten almost beyond recognition" by Davis with a .357 Magnum, and hit over 25 times in the face and head. He was also convicted of killing Nancy Weiler's two daughters, Kristina, age 10, who was shot twice in the face and Katherine, age 5, who was shot as she tried to run away and then had her skull beaten in with the gun. Davis was on parole for armed robbery at the time of the murders. He was executed on July 8, 1999.

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the state of Texas, part of the United States.

Judy Buenoano American serial killer

Judias V. “Judy” Buenoano was an American convicted murderer who was executed for the 1971 murder of her husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted for the 1980 murder of her son Michael Buenoano and of the 1983 attempted murder of her boyfriend John Gentry. Buenoano is also acknowledged to have been responsible for the 1978 death of her boyfriend Bobby Joe Morris in Colorado; however, by the time authorities made the connection between Buenoano and Morris, she had already been sentenced to death in the state of Florida.

Huntsville Unit state prison in Huntsville, Texas, which includes the state execution chamber

Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States. The approximately 54.36-acre (22.00 ha) facility, near Downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), administered as within Region I. The facility, the oldest Texas state prison, opened in 1849.

New Jersey Department of Corrections

The New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) is responsible for operations and management of prison facilities in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The department operates 13 major institutions—seven adult male correctional facilities, three youth facilities, one facility for sex offenders, one women's correctional institution and a central reception / intake unit—and a Stabilization and Reintegration Program. The department is headquartered in Trenton.

Ely State Prison architectural structure

Ely State Prison (ESP) is a maximum security penitentiary located in unincorporated White Pine County, Nevada, about 9 miles (14 km) north of Ely. The facility, operated by the Nevada Department of Corrections, opened in July 1989. As of 2010 the prison has a staff of 406 and is a major employer in the Ely area. As of September 2010, the prison housed 1,077 male inmates.

Utah State Prison state prison in Draper, Utah, United States

Utah State Prison (USP) is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It is located in Draper, Utah, United States, about 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.

Thomas Harrison Provenzano Convicted murdered

Thomas Harrison Provenzano was a convicted murderer executed by means of lethal injection by the state of Florida. Provenzano believed he was Jesus Christ and also compared his execution with Christ's crucifixion.

Capital punishment in Connecticut formerly existed as an available sanction for a criminal defendant upon conviction for the commission of a capital offense. Since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia until Connecticut repealed capital punishment in 2012, Connecticut executed one individual, although the law allowed executions to proceed for those still on death row and convicted under the previous law, but on August 13, 2015, the Connecticut Supreme Court found that applying the death penalty only for past cases was unconstitutional, definitely emptying Connecticut death row.

Nevada State Prison

Nevada State Prison (NSP) was a penitentiary located in Carson City. The prison was in continuous operation since its establishment in 1862 and was managed by the Nevada Department of Corrections. It was one of the oldest prisons still operating in the United States. The high security facility housed 219 inmates in September 2011. It was designed to hold 841 inmates and employed a staff of 211.

Florida Department of Corrections

The Florida Department of Corrections operates state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in Florida's capital of Tallahassee.

Death row is a special placement in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution, even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists. In the United States, after a person is found guilty of a capital offense in death penalty states, the judge will give the jury the option of imposing a death sentence or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. It is then up to a jury to decide whether to give the death sentence; this usually has to be an unanimous decision. If the jury agrees on death, the defendant will remain on death row during appeal and habeas corpus procedures, which may continue for several years.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Florida Has Executed 56 Inmates Since 1979 - from Tampa Bay Online Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 102704. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on May 29, 2008.
  3. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 032827. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  4. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 102476. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  5. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 030970. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on May 29, 2008.
  6. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 538283. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on May 29, 2008.
  7. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 110488. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on May 29, 2008.
  8. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 093836. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  9. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 088795. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  10. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 078079. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  11. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 036275. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  12. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 119658. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  13. ↑ Inmate Release Information Detail - Inmate 105314. Florida Department of Corrections . Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  14. ↑ "US executes Australian widow's murderer". The Age. Melbourne. October 19, 2006.
  15. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/authorities-man-executed-in-florida-with-help-of-drug-never-used-before-in-a-us-lethal-injection/2017/08/24/82faa446-891b-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb_story.html
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