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Florida sets execution date for man convicted of killing a grocery store owner
Melvin Trotter, convicted in 1986 for a grocery store murder, is set for lethal injection on Feb. 24 after Florida set a 2025 record with 19 executions, officials said.
- A death warrant signed Friday by Gov. Ron DeSantis set Melvin Trotter's execution by lethal injection on Feb. 24 at Florida State Prison.
- Trotter was initially convicted and sentenced in 1987 for strangling and stabbing Virgie Langford at her Palmetto store in 1986, then resentenced after the Florida Supreme Court found errors.
- Investigators later found a T-shirt with Langford's blood type at Trotter's home and his handprint on a meat cooler at the grocery store.
- Attorneys for Trotter plan to file appeals with the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, while Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, is scheduled to die on Feb. 10, two weeks before Trotter.
- After a break for January, Florida is resuming a two-executions-per-month pattern, following forty-seven people executed in the U.S. in 2025, the highest total since 2009.
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Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Death Warrant For Grocery Store Killer Amid Execution Surge
Florida is keeping up a fast pace of executions this year. On Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Melvin Trotter, a man convicted of killing a grocery store owner nearly 40 years ago. Trotter, who is now 65 years old, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on February 24. This marks […] Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Death Warrant For Grocery Store Killer Amid Execution Surge
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