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Posted on 08/01/2025 7:12:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Starke, Florida AP — A man convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year, his death Thursday marking a state record for a single-year execution total since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty decades ago.
Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. After the return of the U.S. death penalty in 1976, Florida carried out a high of eight executions in 2014, a one-year total only matched this year with a mid-July execution and now exceeded.
“I want to thank the good people of the Sunshine State for killing me in the most cold, calculated, clean, humane, efficient way possible. I have no complaint,” Zakrzewski said after the curtain to the death chamber went up shortly after 6 p.m.
He was lying on a gurney covered with a white sheet. Before the drugs began flowing, he also quoted from a poem as 14 witnesses looked on, plus media reporters and prison staff.
Once the drugs were administered, Zakrzewski began breathing deeply, surrounded by three Corrections Department staffers in dark suits. One of them shook Zakrzewski by the shoulders and shouted his name. There was no reaction, and then he was still.
Florida this year has carried out more executions than any other state, while Texas and South Carolina are tied for second with four each. A 10th execution is scheduled in Florida on Aug. 19 and an 11th on Aug. 28 under death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Ping..................
It’s only August. Who’s our next contestant on “You Bet Your Life”?
1994, Why was he allowed to breath for 30 years after he murdered his family? That is pure B/S.
“A 10th execution is scheduled in Florida on Aug. 19 and an 11th on Aug. 28 under death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.”
I should have read further.
Any article discussing the execution of a murderer should include pictures of his victims, the lives cut short. But we rarely see that.
He got off easy. Florida shoulda made it much more harsh for him.
Good riddance!
And it’s only August 1! Keep up the good work!
Wow, no kidding! Taxpayers funded 31 years of incarceration, services, legal etc. Probably in the many millions! Almost enough to fund a transgender mice experiment NGO!
Too bad it took so long.
The story tries to make you hate Florida and the death penalty.
They failed.
One a month!................
Thanks. Before posting #7, I did a quick search. I found many articles with pictures of the murderer. But not one with pictures of his victims.
Odd. Or maybe not. Maybe our friends in the media want us to sympathize with the convict, but not with his victims.
For killing a child, and in this case two, there ought to be no appeals, just sentence carried out within a month of the verdict..........................
“Florida carries out record 9th execution of year on man”
That guy was hard to kill.
Depraved
He butchered them one by one
The 5 yr old was last
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakrzewski_family_murders
Wire up some aluminum bleachers and clear Death Row all at once.
As it should be.
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