Bishops Send Letter to Governor as Florida Poised to Break Execution Record

On July 8, the bishops of Florida sent a letter to Governor Ron DeSantis requesting that he pause the signing of death warrants and meet with them to review the Church's teachings on the sanctity of human life. The letter is in response to a ninth death warrant signed by the governor this year. If the state executes Edward Zakrzewski on July 31, it would break Florida's record for the number of executions carried out in a single year. The state put Michael Bell to death by lethal injection on July 15, tying the previous record of eight executions set in 1984, and again in 2014.

The text of the bishop's letter is available as a PDF.