Explainer: What it's like to be on Florida's death row
Last night, Florida completed its second execution of 2023. Louis Gaskin, 56, was put to death for the 1989 murders of a snowbird couple from New Jersey after being sentenced under Florida’s prior unconstitutional capital sentencing statute.
It came six weeks after Donald Dillbeck was executed for the 1990 murder of a Tallahassee woman, and three weeks before the scheduled execution of Darryl Barwick for a 1986 slaying in Panama City.
“Barring any stays for Barwick, it will be the shortest period that three executions have been carried out in Florida since three were put to death within 36 days in 2014 under former Gov. Rick Scott, also a Republican,” the AP reported.
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