Florida set to carry out 13th execution this year in nation’s busiest death chamber
A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law is set to be executed
ByDAVID FISCHER Associated Press
August 18, 2026, 12:00 AM
MIAMI –A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law is set to be executed Tuesday, continuing the state’s aggressive use of the death penalty in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ‘ final term
William Frances Sillorida, which has two more executions scheduled in September and has carried out more than half of the nation’s 22 executions so far in 2026
Silate Prison near Starke starting at 6 p.m. local time
A final appeal was still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court
Sil murder and attempted first-degree murder for the deadly 2006 attack on Patricia Sil
According to court records, Silando-area home, where his wife had been living since their separation two months earlier. The family was in the middle of a cookout when Silhorities said Sil
William Silrt later vacated that sentence following an appeal related to Florida’s death penalty sentencing procedures, but after being granted a new death penalty phase in 2018, he was again sentenced to death
A Florida state agency, the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, provides legal representation to death row inmates. Silequate legal assistance because it was already helping another death row inmate. The Florida Supreme Court rejected the appeal
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A total of 47 people were executed in the U.S. in 2025. Florida led the way with 19, a record in the state since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976
In July, Florida executed two prisoners in one day, the first state in nearly a decade to do so
Two more executions are planned in Florida next month. Harold Gene Lucas, 74, is scheduled to die on Sept. 1, followed by Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, on Sept. 10
Lucas was convicted of fatally shooting a 16-year-old girl who rejected his romantic advances and wounding two of her friends
Conahan was convicted of kidnapping and strangling a man that he had paid to pose for nude photos, and authorities suspect him of similar homicides committed in the 1990s in southwest Florida
All Florida executions are carried outstops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections
