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  • Florida carries out its 13th execution this year in US’s busiest death chamber
    US supreme court declined to halt execution of William Frances Silvia, and state has two executions next monthA Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law was executed on Tuesday, continuing the state’s aggressive use of the death penalty in the final term of the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.William Frances Silvia, 61, was pronounced dead at 6.11pm after receiving a three-drug injection at the Florida state prison near Starke. Continue readin
     

Florida carries out its 13th execution this year in US’s busiest death chamber

18 août 2026 à 18:33

US supreme court declined to halt execution of William Frances Silvia, and state has two executions next month

A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law was executed on Tuesday, continuing the state’s aggressive use of the death penalty in the final term of the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

William Frances Silvia, 61, was pronounced dead at 6.11pm after receiving a three-drug injection at the Florida state prison near Starke.

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© Photograph: David Fischer/AP

© Photograph: David Fischer/AP

© Photograph: David Fischer/AP

Florida Primary Underscores State’s New Identity as a Republican Juggernaut

18 août 2026 à 05:03
Republicans hold every statewide elected office and have drastically swung voter registration in the state. A newly gerrymandered congressional map has added four Republican-leaning seats.

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So few potentially competitive districts remain in Florida that a majority of the state’s 28 congressional races will be all but settled in the primaries.
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