“Gov. DeSantis is scheduling all of these executions with complete autonomy and in complete secrecy,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n
DeSantis\u2019 office has not responded to questions about why the governor is increasing the pace of executions now and whether Trump\u2019s policies are playing a role.<\/p>\n
Executions have been carried out this year in Alabama<\/a>, Arizona<\/a>, Florida<\/a>, Indiana<\/a>, Louisiana<\/a>, Mississippi<\/a>, Oklahoma<\/a>, South Carolina<\/a>, Tennessee<\/a> and Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n All but one of those states \u2014 Arizona \u2014 are run by Republican governors.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a look at the executions scheduled for the rest of the year, by state:<\/p>\n Arizona<\/b> Djerf, 55, had pleaded guilty to four counts of murder in the 1993 killings of Albert Luna Sr., his wife Patricia, their 18-year-old daughter Rochelle and their 5-year-old son Damien.<\/p>\n Prosecutors say Djerf blamed another Luna family member for an earlier theft of home electronic items at his apartment and became obsessed with revenge.<\/p>\n Indiana<\/p>\n Roy Lee Ward<\/a> died by lethal injection early Friday<\/a> in the state\u2019s third execution since resuming capital punishment<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n Ward, 53, was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne.<\/p>\n Attorneys said Ward is remorseful and has exhausted his legal options after many court battles.<\/p>\n Missouri<\/p>\n Lance C. Shockley<\/a> is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Shockley, 48, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham outside his home in Carter County in 2005.<\/p>\n Authorities said Graham was killed because he was investigating Shockley for involuntary manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident.<\/p>\n Florida<\/p>\n Samuel Lee Smithers<\/a> is set to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n Smithers, 72, was convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond in 1996. Authorities said he met his two victims \u2014 Christy Cowan and Denise Roach \u2014 on different dates at a Tampa motel to pay them for sex.<\/p>\n Norman Mearle Grim Jr.<\/a>, 65, is scheduled to be put to death on Oct. 28. He was convicted of raping and killing his neighbor Cynthia Campbell, whose body was found near the Pensacola Bay Bridge in 1998.<\/p>\n Smithers’ and Grim’s executions would be Florida\u2019s 14th and 15th death sentences carried out in 2025, further extending the state\u2019s record for executions in one year. Since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, the state’s previous record was eight in 2014.<\/p>\n Mississippi<\/p>\n Charles Ray Crawford<\/a> is scheduled to be executed Wednesday for kidnapping and killing a college student in 1993.<\/p>\n Crawford, 59, was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing 20-year-old community college student Kristy Ray after abducting her from her parents\u2019 home in northern Mississippi\u2019s Tippah County. Crawford told officers he had blacked out and did not recall killing her.<\/p>\n Texas<\/p>\n Robert Roberson had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Oct. 16, but his closely watched case was paused Thursday by Texas\u2019 top criminal court<\/a>.<\/p>\n Roberson, 58, had been set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prosecutors at Roberson\u2019s 2003 trial argued that he hit his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis and violently shook her, causing severe head trauma that led to her death.<\/p>\n But Roberson says he never abused the girl. A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers believe Roberson is innocent and have sought to get him a new trial.<\/p>\n Roberson\u2019s lawyers and some medical experts say his daughter died from complications related to pneumonia. They say his conviction was based on flawed and now outdated scientific evidence.<\/p>\n Alabama<\/p>\n Anthony Todd Boyd<\/a> is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n A judge sentenced Boyd to death for his role in the 1993 killing of Gregory Huguley in Talladega. Prosecutors said Boyd taped Huguley\u2019s feet together before another man doused him with gasoline and set him on fire over a $200 cocaine debt.<\/p>\n Boyd has long maintained his innocence, saying he never participated in the killing.<\/p>\n Tennessee<\/p>\n Harold Nichols is scheduled to be executed Dec. 11.<\/p>\n Nichols, 64, was convicted of rape and first-degree felony murder in the 1988 death of 21-year-old Karen Pulley in Hamilton County. Authorities said he broke into Pulley’s home, raped her and hit her in the head several times with a board.<\/p>\n Nichols had been scheduled to be killed in August 2020, but the execution was delayed<\/a> because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Richard Kenneth Djerf<\/a> is set to be executed Oct. 17 by lethal injection for killing four members of a family in their Phoenix home.<\/p>\n
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