Florida sets new record with 14 executions in 2025. Samuel Lee Smithers, convicted of killing two women in 1996, was put to ...
STARKE — The state on Tuesday executed a Plant City man known as the “Deacon of Death” for the murders of two women in 1996. Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a ...
A man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond has become the 14th person executed in Florida ...
A man who died on Sept. 17 after being shot the previous month has been identified by Wilmington police as Lee Morr Harris. Police said in a Sept. 30 press release that it took them 13 days to ...