Florida executed 58-year-old Frank Walls by lethal injection as punishment for the 1987 killings of Edward Alger and his girlfriend Ann Peterson when Walls was 19 years old. AdvertisementWalls’ death marked the 47th execution of 2025 — nearly twice the number of executions from the previous year. Ahead of his execution, Walls asked the Supreme Court to halt the killing, arguing that his intellectual disability made him ineligible for execution and that execution logs from the Florida Department of Corrections showed the state’s execution practices were error-prone. AdvertisementThe Supreme Court denied Walls’ request, as it has done with every single request to stay an execution this year. DeSantis has indicated he wants to challenge a 2008 Supreme Court case that held that the death penalty for rape would violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

Source: Huffington Post December 19, 2025 04:14 UTC