STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is continuous its speedy tempo of executions this yr, with one convicted killer set to die this week and one other on June 10 who can be the sixth individual put to loss of life by the state in 2025.
Glen Rogers, 62, is scheduled to die by deadly injection at Florida State Jail on Thursday for the 1995 stabbing loss of life close to Tampa of Tina Marie Cribbs. Rogers, who has claimed he killed many individuals across the nation, was additionally sentenced to loss of life in California for one more girl’s homicide.
Rogers was arrested in Kentucky driving Cribbs’ automotive, which he claimed she had lent to him.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis final week signed a loss of life warrant for Anthony Wainwright, 54, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering Carmen Gayheart in 1994. Gayheart was kidnapped from a grocery retailer car parking zone in Lake Metropolis, Florida.
Wainwright and one other man had escaped earlier from jail in North Carolina and have been captured in Mississippi after a shootout with police, in response to court docket information.
Each Rogers and Wainwright have appeals pending that would delay their executions. There have been additionally six Florida executions in 2023, however just one in 2024.
