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Florida is scheduled to carry out the execution of 54-year-old Michael Bernard Bell by lethal injection today. Bell was convicted in 1995 for the double murder of 18-year-old Tamecka Smith and 23-year-old Jimmy West, whom he ambushed and killed with an AK-47 outside a bar in a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Glen Rogers, infamously known as the "Casanova Killer," is scheduled for execution on May 15, 2025, nearly 30 years after his 1995 murder spree.

A federal judge has temporarily halted Louisiana’s planned execution of death row inmate Jessie Hoffman, ruling that the state’s use of nitrogen hypoxia poses a substantial risk of extreme psychological suffering.

South Carolina is set to become the first state in 15 years to carry out an execution by firing squad. The execution of 67-year-old Brad Sigmon is scheduled for March 7, marking only the third time in nearly five decades that this method has been used in the United States.

For the first time since 2010, Louisiana is preparing to carry out an execution.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state will begin using nitrogen gas as an execution method, following Alabama’s implementation of the practice last year.