Florida is set to execute a 77-year-old man convicted of a 1995 murder
The Florida Supreme Court rejected claims that his cognitive decline makes execution cruel and unusual, and a final appeal is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- On Tuesday, Florida is scheduled to execute 77-year-old Curtis Wilkie Beasley for the 1995 murder of Carolyn Monfort. Beasley, convicted in 1998, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state prison at 6 p.m.
- Investigators found Monfort dead in her Dundee home after suffering blunt-force trauma from a hammer. Following the 1995 attack, authorities arrested Beasley in Alabama while he was working under a fake name for an electrical company.
- Beasley would become the 16th person executed in Florida this year, positioning the state as the nation's busiest death chamber. He represents the 7th prisoner over 70 to be executed in the state this year.
- A final appeal remains pending before the Supreme Court as the state nears last year's record of 19 executions. Florida has carried out more than half of all executions in the United States this year.
- While Florida has other executions scheduled, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has temporarily paused one due to potential cognitive decline. DeSantis issued similar stays in 2023 and 2025, though both executions eventually proceeded following psychiatric evaluations.
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IN FLORIDA, the execution of 77-year-old Curtis W. Beasley, convicted of murdering a woman with a hammer in 1995, is scheduled.
Florida set to execute 77-year-old Curtis Beasley in 1995 hammer murder case
Florida is set to execute Curtis Beasley on Tuesday for the 1995 killing of Carolyn Monfort. The case has drawn focus to age, mental decline and the state's accelerating use of the death penalty.
Florida is set to execute a 77-year-old man convicted of a 1995 murder – WTOP News
MIAMI (AP) — A 77-year-old Florida man convicted of beating a woman to death with a hammer is scheduled Tuesday to become the 16th person executed this year in the nation’s busiest death chamber. Curtis Wilkie Beasley was sentenced to death after being convicted of first-degree murder, robbery and grand theft auto in a 1995...
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Florida is set to execute a 77-year-old man convicted of a 1995 murder
MIAMI (AP) — A 77-year-old Florida man convicted of beating a woman to death with a hammer is scheduled Tuesday to become the 16th person executed this year in the nation's busiest death chamber.
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