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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·DECEMBER 29, 2007

Florida did not execute any death-row inmates this year for the first time in 25 years...

Florida did not execute any death-row inmates this year for the first time in 25 years, the result of legal and ethical challenges to lethal injection that have temporarily halted executions nationwide.

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Florida did not execute any death-row inmates this year for the first time in 25 years, the result of legal and ethical challenges to lethal injection that have temporarily halted executions nationwide.
Florida was under a moratorium for the first six months of the year, after the botched execution of Angel Diaz in 2006 triggered a state commission's review of the lethal injection process.
Gov. Charlie Crist signed a death warrant in July, but the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the execution as part of a national de facto moratorium while it considers the appeals of two Kentucky inmates who are challenging the same lethal three-drug combination of drugs used in Florida.
The most executions in one year in modern times was eight in 1984, and the state has averaged about 2.35 executions a year since 1983. Florida has 388 inmates on death row, including 19 sent there in 2007.
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  • (Sources: Associated Press, 29/12/2007)