Entries tagged with “Norman Grim”

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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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Jan 07, 2026

New Report Examines Florida’s Unprecedented Execution Pace and Trends in 2025

The United States car­ried out 47 exe­cu­tions in 2025, and Florida car­ried out 19 — the high­est num­ber in state his­to­ry and more than dou­ble its pre­vi­ous mod­ern record, accord­ing to a year-end report from Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP). Executions in Florida — which aver­aged one exe­cu­tion every 16 days from February 2025 through December 2025 — account­ed for 40% of the 47 exe­cu­tions nation­wide, mak­ing Florida a clear out­lier in the use of the death…

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Nov 24, 2025

18th Florida Death Row Prisoner Set for Execution in 2025 Waives Appeals, Fifth Volunteer of 2025

Mark Geralds has waived all pend­ing and future legal pro­ceed­ings in his case and is sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed by Florida offi­cials on December 9, 2025. Mr. Geralds elect­ed to for­go his appeals just days after Governor Ron DeSantis signed his death war­rant, join­ing a doc­u­ment­ed group of death row pris­on­ers who have also decid­ed not to try and pre­vent their exe­cu­tions. Mr. Geralds​“indi­cat­ed that his wish was to for­go all war­rant pro­ceed­ings and allow the execution to…