Florida has executed 244 inmates since 1924. Here is
the list of convicts executed in Florida since the U.S. Supreme
Court restored the state's death penalty in 1976:
1. John Spenkelink, 30, executed May 25, 1979, for the murder of
traveling companion Joe Szymankiewicz in a Tallahassee hotel room.
Second warrant.
2. Robert Sullivan, 36, executed Nov. 30, 1983, for the shotgun
slaying of Homestead hotel-restaurant assistant manager Donald
Schmidt. Second warrant.
3. Anthony Antone, 66, executed Jan. 26, 1984, for masterminding
the Oct. 23, 1975, contract killing of Tampa private detective
Richard Cloud. Second warrant.
4. Arthur F. Goode III, 30, executed April 5, 1984, for killing
9-year-old Jason Verdow of Cape Coral March 5, 1976. Second warrant.
5. James Adams, 47, executed May 10, 1984, for beating Fort
Pierce millionaire rancher Edgar Brown to death with a fire poker
during a 1973 robbery attempt. Second warrant.
6. Carl Shriner, 30, executed June 20, 1984, for killing
32-year-old Gainesville convenience-store clerk Judith Ann Carter,
who was shot five times. Second warrant.
7. David L. Washington, 34, executed July 13, 1984, for the
murders of three Dade County residents - Daniel Pridgen, Katrina
Birk and University of Miami student Frank Meli - during a ten-day
span in 1986. Third warrant.
8. Ernest John Dobbert Jr., 46, executed Sept. 7, 1984, for the
1971 killing of his 9-year-old daughter Kelly Ann. Third warrant.
9. James Dupree Henry, 34, executed Sept. 20, 1984, for the March
23 1974, murder of 81-year-old civil rights leader Zellie L. Riley.
Second warrant.
10. Timothy Palmes, 37, executed in November 1984 for the
stabbing death of Jacksonville furniture store owner James N. Stone.
He was a co-defendant with Ronald John Michael Straight, executed
May 20, 1986. Second warrant.
11. James David Raulerson, 33, executed Jan. 30, 1985, for
gunning down Jacksonville Police Officer Michael Stewart on April
27, 1975. Third warrant.
12. Johnny Paul Witt, 42, executed March 6, 1985, for killing,
sexually abusing and mutilating Jonathan Mark Kushner, the
11-year-old son of a University of South Florida professor, Oct. 28,
1973. Second warrant.
13. Marvin Francois, 39, executed May 29, 1985, for shooting six
people July 27, 1977, in the robbery of a "drug house" in the Miami
suburb of Carol City. He was a co-defendant with Beauford White,
executed Aug. 28, 1987. Second warrant.
14. Daniel Morris Thomas, 37, executed April 15, 1986, for
shooting University of Florida associate professor Charles Anderson,
raping the man's wife as he lay dying, then shooting the family dog
on New Year's Day 1976. Second warrant.
15. David Livingston Funchess, 39, executed April 22, 1986, for
the Dec. 16, 1974, stabbing deaths of the 53-year-old Anna Waldrop
and the 56-year-old Clayton Ragan during a holdup in a Jacksonville
lounge. Second warrant.
16. Ronald John Michael Straight, 42, executed May 20, 1986, for
the Oct. 4, 1976, murder of Jacksonville businessman James N. Stone.
He was a co-defendant with Timothy Palmes, executed Jan. 30, 1985.
Second warrant.
17. Beauford White, 41, executed Aug. 28, 1987, for his role in
the July 27, 1977, shooting of eight people, six fatally, during the
robbery of a small-time drug dealer's home in Carol City, a Miami
suburb. He was a co-defendant with Marvin Francois, executed May 29,
1985. Third warrant.
18. Willie Jasper Darden, 54, executed March 15, 1988, for the
September 1973 shooting of James C. Turman in Lakeland. SEVENTH
warrant.
19. Jeffrey Joseph Daugherty, 33, executed March 15, 1988, for
the March 1976 murder of hitchhiker Lavonne Patricia Sailer in
Brevard County. Second warrant.
20. Theodore Robert Bundy, 42, executed Jan. 24, 1989, for the
rape and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach of Lake City at the
end of a cross-country killing spree. Leach was kidnapped Feb. 9,
1978, and her body was found three months later some 32 miles west
of Lake City. Fourth warrant (Executed on second warrant in Leach
case).
21. Aubry Dennis Adams Jr., 31, executed May 4, 1989, for
strangling the 8-year-old Trisa Gail Thornley to death Jan. 23,
1978, in Ocala. Fourth warrant.
22. Jessie Joseph Tafero, 43, executed May 4, 1990, for the
February 1976 shooting deaths of Florida Highway Patrolman Phillip
Black and his friend Donald Irwin, a Canadian constable from
Kitchener, Ontario. Third warrant.
23. Anthony Bertolotti, 38, executed July 27, 1990, for the Sept.
27, 1983, stabbing death and rape of Carol Ward in Orange County.
Third warrant.
24. James William Hamblen, 61, executed Sept. 21, 1990, for the
April 24, 1984 shooting death of Laureen Jean Edwards during a
robbery at the victim's Jacksonville lingerie shop. Third warrant.
25. Raymond Robert Clark, 49, executed Nov. 19, 1990 for the
April 27, 1977 shooting murder of scrap metal dealer David Drake in
Pinellas County. Fifth warrant.
26. Roy Allen Harich, 32, executed April 24, 1991, for the June
27, 1981 sexual assault, shooting and slashing death of Carlene
Kelly near Daytona Beach. Third warrant.
27. Bobby Marion Francis, 46, executed June 25, 1991, for the
June 17, 1975 murder of Titus R. Walters, a drug informant, in Key
West. Third warrant.
28. Nollie Lee Martin, 43, executed May 12, 1992 for the 1977
murder of a 19-year-old George Washington University student, who
was working at a Delray Beach convenience store. Fourth warrant.
29. Edward Dean Kennedy, 47, executed July 21, 1992, for the
April 11, 1981 slayings of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Howard
McDermon and Floyd Cone after escaping from Union Correctional
Institution. Fourth warrant.
30. Robert Dale Henderson, 48, executed April 21, 1993, for the
1982 shootings of three hitchhikers in Hernando County. He also
confessed to a total of 12 murders in five states. Second warrant.
31. Larry Joe Johnson, 49, executed May 8, 1993, for the 1979
slaying of James Hadden, a service station attendant in small North
Florida town of Lee in Madison County. Veterans group claim Johnson
suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Fourth warrant.
32. Michael Alan Durocher, 33, executed Aug. 25, 1993, for the
1983 murders of his girlfriend, Grace Reed, her daughter, Candice,
and his 6-month-old son Joshua in Clay County. Durocher also
convicted in two other killings. First warrant.
33. Roy Allen Stewart, 38, executed April 22, 1994, for beating,
raping and strangling of 77-year-old Margaret Haizlip of Perrine in
Dade County on Feb. 22, 1978. Fourth warrant.
34. Bernard Bolander, 42, executed July 18, 1995, for killing
four men in Dade County whose bodies were set afire in car trunk on
Jan. 8, 1980. Fourth warrant.
35. Jerry White, 47, executed Dec. 4, 1995, for the slaying of a
customer in an Orange County grocery store robbery in 1981. Third
warrant.
36. Phillip A. Atkins, 40, executed Dec. 5, 1995, for the
molestation and rape of a 6-year-old Lakeland boy in 1981. Second
warrant.
37. John Earl Bush, 38, executed Oct. 21, 1996 for the 1982
slaying of Francis Slater, an heir to the Envinrude outboard motor
fortune. Ms. Slater was working in a Stuart convenience store when
she was kidnapped and murdered. Third warrant.
38. John Mills Jr., 41, executed Dec. 6, 1996, for the fatal
shooting of Les Lawhon in Wakulla and burglarizing Lawhon's home.
Second warrant.
39. Pedro Medina, 39, executed March 25, 1997 for the 1982
slaying of his neighbor Dorothy James, 52, in Orlando. Medina was
the first Cuban who came to Florida in Mariel boat lift to be
executed in Florida. During his execution, flames burst from behind
the mask over his face, delaying Florida executions for almost a
year.
40. Gerald Eugene Stano, 46, executed March 23, 1998, for the
slaying of Cathy Scharf, 17, of Port Orange, who disappeared Nov.
14, 1973. Stano confessed to killing 41 women.
41. Leo Alexander Jones, 47, executed March 24, 1998, for the May
23, 1981, slaying of Jacksonville Police Officer Thomas Szafranski.
42. Judy Buenoano, 54, executed March 30, 1998 for the poisoning
death of her husband, Air Force Sgt. James Goodyear, Sept. 16, 1971.
43. Daniel Remeta, 40, executed March 31, 1998 for the murder of
Ocala convenience store clerk Mehrle Reeder in February 1985, the
first of five killings in three states laid to Remeta.
44. Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis, 54, executed in a new electric chair
on July 8, 1999, for the May 11, 1982 slayings of Jacksonville
resident Nancy Weiler and her daughters, Kristina and Katherine.
Bleeding from Davis' nose prompted continued examination of
effectiveness of electrocution and eventual switch to lethal
injection.
45. Terry M. Sims, 58, became the first Florida inmate to be
executed by injection on Feb. 23, 2000. Sims died for the 1977
slaying of a volunteer deputy sheriff in a central Florida robbery.
46. Anthony Bryan, 40, died from lethal injection Feb. 24, 2000,
for the 1983 slaying of George Wilson, 60, a night watchman abducted
from his job at a seafood wholesaler in Pascagoula, Miss., and
killed in Florida.
47. Bennie Demps, 49, died from lethal injection June 7, 2000 for
the 1976 murder of another prison inmate, Alfred Sturgis. Demps
spent 29 years on death row before he was executed.
48. Thomas Provenzano, 51, died from lethal injection June 21,
2000 for the 1984 murder of William "Arnie" Wilkerson, a 60-year-old
bailiff killed when Provenzano opened fire in an Orlando courtroom.
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