Floridas 2025 Execution Surge: A Deep Dive into the States Record-Breaking Capital PunishmentIn 2025, Florida executed a record-breaking nineteen individuals, nearly doubling the national average and accounting for forty percent of the countrys total executions. This surge is particularly notable as public support for the death penalty is waning nationwide.The increase in executions can be attributed to recent law changes, such as Governor Ron DeSantis 2023 bill allowing juries to recommend death with an eight-to-four vote, not unanimous. Many of those executed were around sixty years old and had histories of mental illness, low IQ, brain damage, or severe childhood trauma. Several had experienced brutal conditions in state reform schools like Arthur G. Dozier.However, the process has raised concerns among lawyers and advocates about rushed appeals and lack of counsel for some inmates. Critics argue that Governor DeSantis targeted easy cases with no real review, while the governor maintains that its about justice for victims families after long appeals.With over two hundred forty people still on Floridas death row, including seventeen from Miami-Dade County, and the longest wait being seventy-three-year-old William Thompsons nineteen seventy-six murder case, the state shows no signs of slowing down in its capital punishment efforts. Checkout Solipillow.com

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