Last night, I stood outside Florida State Prison as the State carried out the eighteenth execution of this year. Mark Allen Geralds died at 6:15 p.m. — another life taken in what has been the deadliest year in our state’s history. Being at the prison, watching yet another family lose someone they loved, is a…

Tonight, we the people of the State of Florida executed Mark Allen Geralds for the 1989 murder of Tressa Pettibone. We are in the final month of the deadliest year in Florida’s history. Mark was the eighteenth person put to death in 2025, which is more executions than in any single year in Florida, and…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today at 6 p.m. ET, the State of Florida is scheduled to execute Mark Geralds for the 1989 murder of Tressa Pettibone. If carried out, Geralds’ execution will continue a year in which Florida has executed more people than in any other year in state history, raising deep concerns about the fairness,…