Death Penalty

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request to halt the execution of 62-year-old Glen Rogers, setting the stage for his lethal injection at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison.

Glen Rogers is slated to be executed on May 15 for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs in a Tampa motel room.

An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems was executed Thursday evening for the 1998 shotgun slayings on Okaloosa County.

Tanzi was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening, 25 years after he kidnapped a woman on her lunch break in Miami and murdered her in Monroe County.

James Dennis Ford was put to death with a lethal injection as about 25 witnesses watched at Florida State Prison Thursday evening.

More than 30 years after he murdered John Edwards, who was on a camping trip in the Ocala National Forest, Loran Cole was given a lethal injection Thursday evening.

Loran Cole is slated to be executed Thursday for the 1994 rape of a woman and the murder of her brother, Florida State University student John Edwards

The Florida Supreme Court rejected a series of arguments, including claims that Loran Cole was severely abused as a teen at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna.

Marion County Circuit Judge Robert Hodges last week refused to vacate Loran Cole’s death sentence. He murdered an FSU student 30 years ago in the Ocala National Forest.

Loran Cole, 57, was sentenced to death in the February of 1994 murder of John Edwards in the Ocala National Forest. Cole was 17 when he was sent to Dozier in 1984.