Florida Prepares For Executions Of Two Accused Killers

FLORIDA - Florida is set to carry out two more executions in the coming weeks, continuing a surge in death penalty actions that has defined 2025.

If completed, the executions would be the fifth and sixth this year, doubling the state’s total from 2024.

Glen Edward Rogers, 62, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday at Florida State Prison.

Rogers was accused in the 1995 stabbing death of 34-year-old Tina Marie Cribbs near Tampa.

Authorities said Cribbs was last seen leaving a bar with the accused before she was found dead in a motel bathroom.

Rogers was later arrested in Kentucky while driving Cribbs’ car, which he claimed she had allowed him to borrow.

He was also sentenced to death in California for the murder of another woman and has allegedly confessed to multiple other killings across the country.

The second execution involves Anthony Floyd Wainwright, 54, who is scheduled to die on June 10th.

Wainwright was accused of abducting 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart from a grocery store parking lot in Lake City in 1994.

After allegedly raping and shooting her, he was arrested in Mississippi following a police shootout.

At the time of the killing, Wainwright had reportedly escaped from a North Carolina prison with another inmate.

Governor Ron DeSantis signed Wainwright’s death warrant last week.

Both men have active appeals that could delay the executions.

With six executions already scheduled, Florida’s use of capital punishment has sharply increased in 2025.