US EditionFlorida set to execute man for killing wife, 2 kids in new state death sentence record for 1 year
BRADFORD COUNTY, FLORIDA, JUL 31 – Edward Zakrzewski was convicted of killing his wife and two children after a divorce dispute; his execution marks Florida's ninth this year, setting a state record for 2025.
- Edward Zakrzewski, who was sentenced to death for the 1994 murders of his wife and their two children using a crowbar, rope, and machete, is set to be executed Thursday at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison.
- Zakrzewski’s execution follows decades of legal proceedings including a 7-5 jury recommendation for death sentences and a 6-6 deadlock on one child’s case, with the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting last-minute appeals.
- Florida leads the nation in executions this year, as Thursday’s execution will be the ninth in 2025, setting a new modern-era state record since 1976.
- Governor Ron DeSantis supports capital punishment for horrific crimes, while opponents argue “this execution will not make us safer” and call Florida’s death penalty system flawed and racially biased.
- Zakrzewski’s execution highlights Florida as an outlier in U.S. death penalty use, with more executions scheduled in August including Kayle Bates on the 19th and Curtis Windom on the 28th.
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The state of Florida, in the south of the United States, has broken the annual record of executions with the ninth death penalty of 2025 in just seven months. It has done so after providing the lethal injection this Thursday to Edward J. Zakrzewski, an ex-military man convicted of murdering his wife and two children with a machete when she asked for a divorce.
Edward Zakrzewski killed his wife and their two children in 1994. Last night he was given a lethal injection in Florida.
The former US Air Force sergeant's motive was a divorce dispute.
The ex-commissioner of the U.S. Air Force was found guilty of killing his then 34-year-old wife and two young children in 1994.
Florida breaks 50-year execution record with ninth death sentence carried out this year
A Florida man convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children was put to death on Thursday, marking the ninth execution in the Sunshine State this year and a state record for a single-year total since the death penalty was reinstated in the U.S. nearly 50 years ago.Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke after a three-drug injection, which consists of a sedative, a paralytic a…
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