Florida carries out its 13th execution this year in US’s busiest death chamber

US supreme court declined to halt execution of William Frances Silvia, and state has two executions next monthA Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law was executed on Tuesday, continuing the state’s aggressive use of the death penalty in the final term of the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.William Frances Silvia, 61, was pronounced dead at 6.11pm after receiving a three-drug injection at the Florida state prison near Starke. Continue reading...