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

Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty

Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight decades.

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 pre­vi…

Florida’s hypocritical laws of life

Florida carried out its 13th execution of the year on Tuesday, August 18, putting 61-year-old William Silvia to death by lethal injection. Florida accounts for almost half of all executions carried out nationwide, solidifying its place as a death chamber in the country next to Texas and Oklahoma. But at the same time, Florida also […] The post Florida’s hypocritical laws of life first appeared on The Miami Hurricane.