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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 13th exe­cu­tion of the year and the 23rd 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…

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Mar 03, 2026

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Calls Secrecy Around Florida’s Recent Spate of Executions ​“Troubling”

“By con­tin­u­ing to shroud its exe­cu­tions in secre­cy, Florida under­mines both the integri­ty of its own exe­cu­tion process and, poten­tial­ly, this Court’s abil­i­ty to ensure the State’s com­pli­ance with its con­sti­tu­tion­al oblig­a­tions.” —Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a February 24, 2026 *state­ment* accom­pa­ny­ing the denial of cer­tio­rari in the case of Melvin Trotter. Melvin Trotter, Ronnie Heath, and Frank Walls — the most recent of the twenty-one…