In 48 hours, the State of Florida plans to execute Frank Walls. This will be the 19th execution of 2025, extending a bloody record. Yesterday, our colleagues at the Death Penalty Information Center published their annual report detailing the year’s trends in executions. Though Florida stood out in a bad way, there is still good…

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…