07 January 2026 :

December 30, 2025 - Florida. TFDP's Year End Report: 19 executions, 5 death sentences

2025 was a record-breaking for capital punishment in the State of Florida. The State conducted more executions than any other year in the State’s history. The Death Penalty Information Center’s year-end report blamed Florida for this year’s national increase in executions, writing that Florida “alone accounted for 19 executions, or 40% of the year’s total.”

Here’s a quick review of the year:

• 19 executions
• - 2 state-run reform school survivors. (Michael Bell and Victor Jones were survivors of state-run reform schools, where they were abused as children).
• - 1 claim of insanity for execution. (Jeffrey Hutchinson unsuccessfully claimed insanity for execution. Before him, the last person to make a claim of insanity for execution was Duane Owen in 2023).
• - 2 volunteers (After his death warrant was signed, Norman Grim, executed in October, waived all postconviction claims. Mark Geralds waived all postconviction claims before his execution in December).
• - 6 people died on death row: Guillermo Arbelaez, Matthew Caylor, Brandy Jennings, Anthony Lamarca, Robert Peede, Leroy Pooler.
• - 5 people sentenced to death: Joseph Ables, Ryan Cole, Derrick Clay, Jose Antonio Soto-Escalera & Donavan Faison
• - 6 people sentenced to LWOP: Nicholas Canfield, Reginald Gibson, Anthawn Ragan, Beloni Petit-Free, Michael Schnitzerling, Ronny Tremel Walker
• - 5 people resentenced to death: Robert Bailey, Guerry Hertz, Jerone Hunter, Eriese Tisdale & Troy Victorino
• - 4 people resentenced to LWOP: Kim Jackson, Labrant Dennis, Jason Looney, Johnny Hoskins

https://fladeathpenalty.substack.com/p/2025-in-review-part-i
https://fladeathpenalty.substack.com/p/2025-in-review-part-ii