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Currently, the state of Florida has 277 people on death row awaiting execution as of December 20, 2024.

List of death row inmates

Central Florida

The counties which encompass Central Florida are Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Sumter, Volusia.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Leon Davis Jr.	Murders of four people.	13 years, 350 days	He was given an additional life sentence for killing the unborn child of one of the victims
Markeith Loyd	Shot and killed Orlando Police Lieutenant Debra Clayton.	3 years, 42 days	Loyd was previously sentenced to life for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon.
Julio Rivera	Shot and killed his childhood friend in a storage unit his friend was letting him stay in after violating parole related to another murder case in New York	277 days	He was convicted of murdering a man in New York during a robbery in front of his young sons. He would be paroled after 24 years.
George Trepal	Poisoned and murdered his neighbor, 41-year-old Peggy Carr.	34 years, 39 days
Troy Victorino	Bludgeoned six people to death.	18 years, 205 days	Victorino and accomplice Jerone Hunter were both sentenced to death for the crime. The crime was the bloodiest mass murder in Volusia County history.
Tommy Zeigler	Quadruple murder of Eunice Zeigler, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and Charlie Mays.	48 years, 272 days	Zeigler's case has been the focus of controversy since he was denied bloodstain DNA analysis in 2013 and 2016, and touch DNA analysis in April 2017. Zeigler was scheduled to be executed on October 22, 1982. However, the U.S. District Court stayed the execution due to new evidence. Zeigler was then scheduled to be executed on May 20, 1986, but it was again stayed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals due to inadequate representation. Zeigler is Florida's longest-serving death row inmate.

Florida Panhandle

The counties which encompass the Florida Panhandle are Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, Washington, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Leonard Gonzalez	Murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings.	14 years, 56 days
Gary Hilton	Kidnapped, robbed, murdered and dismembered Cheryl Dunlap at Apalachicola National Forest.	13 years, 358 days	He was also sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for the murder of Meredith Emerson, and was sentenced in North Carolina to four life sentences for the murders of John and Irene Bryant. Hilton is also suspected in the killing of Judy Smith.
Michael Harrison Hunt	Shot four people, killing one as an attempt to murder a witness in a sex trafficking case he was a part of.	1 year, 85 days
Frank A. Walls	Robbery and murder of five people in Ocean City from 1985 to 1987	32 years, 259 days	Granted a new trial in 1994, but was found guilty and was resentenced to death

Miami Metropolitan Area

The counties with encompass the Miami Metropolitan Area are Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Lucious Boyd	Kidnapped, raped and stabbed 21-year-old Dawnia Dacosta with a screwdriver.	22 years, 297 days	He is a suspect in at least ten other homicides, rapes, and disappearances
Noel Doorbal	Murdered and dismembered Hungarian couple, Frank Griga and his girlfriend Krisztina Furton, during an extortion kidnapping.	26 years, 272 days	Changes to capital punishment laws have helped Doorbal, who in 2017 had his death sentence overturned. In case Miami prosecutors seek the death penalty again, he will be tried by a jury.
Daniel Lugo
Steven Wolf	Wolf kidnapped, raped and tortured a homeless woman in his van, and then dumped parts of her dismembered body in a wooded area.	1 year, 243 days	Was previously sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering a homeless man in Idaho at aged 15.

North Florida

The counties encompassing North Florida are Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Levy, Marion, Flagler, Putnam, St. Johns, Gilchrist, Suwannee, Nassau, Union

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Wayne C. Doty	Murder of fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez in 2013.	11 years, 314 days (first sentence; overthrown) 6 years, 334 days (second sentence)	Originally sentenced to death for the murder of Harvey Horne II in 1996, the Florida Supreme Court threw out Doty's sentence in 2016, but he was retried and received a new one in 2018. Has selected electrocution as his method of execution.
Markas Fishburne	Murdered his roommate's girlfriend and put her in a plastic storage bin	291 days
Michael James Jackson	Kidnapped, robbed and buried alive his girlfriend's former neighbors, married couple James "Reggie" and Carol Sumner, both 61-year-old.	17 years, 228 days	Alan Wade, who help in the murders was sentenced to death. His girlfriend, Tiffany Cole was also sentenced to death, but retrial and sentenced to life on August 23, 2023. Bruce Nixon, who also participed in the murders was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Michael Wayne Jones	would be sentenced to death for murdering his four kids, including drowning two of them	1 year, 345 days	also sentenced to life for murdering his wife
Patrick McDowell	shot and killed a Nassau County deputy during a traffic stop.	271 days	at trial he wrote a letter asking for the death penalty
Donald James Smith	Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.	6 years, 347 days
Mark Wilson Jr	stabbed two brothers to death, they were aged 12 and 14	2 years, 46 days	Wilson was also dating the boys aunt at the time

South Florida

The counties which encompass South Florida are Collier, Lee, Sarasota, DeSoto, Charlotte, Hendry, Glades, Hardee, Highlands, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, Indian River, and Martin.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Daniel Conahan	Kidnapped, raped, tortured and strangled a 21-year-old man, tied him to a tree, then removed his genitals.	26 years, 63 days	Conahan is also a suspect in the deaths of twelve other men.
Mesac Damas	Murder of his wife and five children at their home.	7 years, 169 days	He was given six death sentences for each murder.
Kevin Foster	Shot high school music teacher Mark Schwebes.	26 years, 332 days	Two of Foster's accomplices were sentenced to life without parole. Another was sentenced to 32 years.
Michael King	Kidnapped, raped and murdered 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee.	15 years, 222 days
Mark Sievers	Orchestrated the murder of his wife, 46-year-old Teresa Sievers.	5 years, 101 days
Wade Wilson	Strangled two women to death then ran over the second victim multiple times.	229 days	Called the Deadpool killer due to sharing the same name as him. His trial also occurred around the same time as the release of Deadpool & Wolverine.
Zephen Xaver	Perpetrated the 2019 Sebring shooting.	119 days
Joseph Zieler	murdered a 11 year old girl and her baby sitter after breaking into the girl’s home	1 year, 250 days	Zieler wouldn’t be caught until roughly 30 years after the crime. He would also assault his attorney during trial.

Tampa Bay Area

The counties which encompass the Tampa Bay Area are Manatee, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, Citrus.

Name	Description of crime	Time on death row	Other
Steven Lorenzo	Would rape and torture nine gay men, murdering two of them. He and a partner would dump dismembered body parts of the victims across Tampa	1 year, 215 days	The time of sentence was roughly 20 years from the crime.
Dontae Morris	Killed five people, including two police officers, in Tampa between May and June 2010.	10 years, 319 days
Glen Edward Rogers	Stabbed Tina Marie Cribbs to death.	27 years, 277 days	Rogers was also sentenced to death in California for the murder of Sandra Gallagher, and is suspected of having murdered three other women in Ohio, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Considered by investigators as a possible alternative suspect to O. J. Simpson in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Also see

• capital punishment in Florida
• List of death row inmates in the United States
• List of death row inmates in Japan
• List of people executed in Florida

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