Entries tagged with “James Hitchcock”

Aug 25, 2026

Florida’s Outlier Status: Thirteen of the Nation’s Twenty-Three Executions in 2026, Even as Executions Elsewhere Decline

Florida exe­cut­ed William Silvia on August 18, 2026, the state’s 13^th exe­cu­tion of the year and the 23^rd nation­al­ly. Florida has now car­ried out 57 per­cent of this year’s exe­cu­tions in the United States and 32 of the 70 car­ried out nation­wide since January 2025. The total builds on 2025, when Florida exe­cut­ed 19 peo­ple, the most in any year since the state rein­stat­ed cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in 1976 and more than dou­ble its pre­vi­ous mod­ern record of eight. Removing Florida…