Florida Man Convicted of Killing 2 Women to be Executed
A 72-year-old Florida man, Samuel Lee Smithers, was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday evening for killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond.
Smithers was set to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke, under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov.
This execution would be Florida's 14th in 2025, extending the state record for executions in a single year. The previous annual total record was eight executions in 2014, after the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976.
Author's summary: Florida man to be executed for killing two women.