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Veterans will present a letter to the governor on Wednesday in Tallahassee, urging him to reconsider the scheduled Aug. 19 execution of Kayle Bates, a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces. The letter is signed by more than 130 veterans.

Florida has three executions set to take place over the next month, including man convicted of fatally shooting three people and wounding another person was added to the queue.

Florida plans to execute Michael Bernard Bell on Tuesday for a 1993 double murder outside a bar. This would mark the 26th execution in the U.S. this year, tying totals from 2024 and 2018.

Florida may carry out more executions in 2025 than in any other year in recent history. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed nine death warrants so far. Seven have been carried out.

Michael Tanzi received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling death of Janet Acosta.

Nearly four decades after murdering Georgianna Worden, a mother, and teenage babysitter Karen Slattery, Duane Owen was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison.

Death penalty researchers say the record-high number of mishandled executions put into question states' ability to perform them.

Other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September, first as an outcry against Iran's morality police.

Both executions and death sentences have declined dramatically since their peak in the late 1990s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Florida is scheduled to execute its next Death Row inmate next month.Gov. Rick Scott signed a new death warrant on Friday setting the execution of Michael…

Florida Governor Rick Scott has set a date for the execution of Michael Lambrix.

Executions have been on hold in Florida since the Supreme Court deemed parts of the state's sentencing procedure unconstitutional in January 2016. Mark Asay is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 24.