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Florida is set to execute a 77-year-old man convicted of a 1995 murder
The execution would be Florida’s 16th this year, as the state Supreme Court rejected appeals arguing Beasley’s age and cognitive decline make it unconstitutional.
- 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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A 77-year-old Florida man was put to death Tuesday for a deadly hammer attack on a woman decades ago, coming the 16th person executed this year in the nation's busiest death chamber. Curtis Wilkie Beasley was pronounced dead at 6:12pm following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near...
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After 200 years, Tennessee is once again setting up a woman. In Florida, a 77-year-old man was given the poison injection. In October, two more prisoners, who are beyond the 70, are expected to follow. Executions are once again part of everyday life in the USA.
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