This execution marked the ninth inmate put to death by lethal injection this year, setting a modern-era record. The previous highest number of executions in a single year in Florida since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 was eight, recorded in 2014.

A death warrant signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis directed that 60-year-old Edward Zakrzewski be executed on Thursday by lethal injection. Zakrzewski was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, officials said.

Florida man brutally murdered his family

The backstory:

Zakrzewski was sentenced to death for the 1994 murders of his wife and two children in their Okaloosa County home.

According to court testimony, Zakrzewski’s wife, Sylvia, was attacked first with a cro

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