Florida’s 13th Execution This Year | Chattanooga News

Florida is set to execute William Frances Silvia, 61, the state’s 13th death row inmate of 2026 — and it’s already performed more than half of the nation’s 22 executions this year. Scheduled for a lethal injection at 6 PM local time at Florida State Prison near Starke, Silvia was convicted in 2006 for murdering his estranged wife Patricia and her mother Betty during a family cookout after retrieving a shotgun from his truck. His first death sentence was overturned due to procedural flaws, but a retrial in 2018 reinstated it — and the Florida Supreme Court rejected his latest appeal claiming inadequate legal representation. With two more executions looming — Harold Gene Lucas on Sept. 1 and Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. on Sept. 10 — Florida continues its record-setting pace, having executed 19 last year and even carrying out two inmates on the same day in July — the first such occurrence in nearly a decade. The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied a stay of execution. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/5d0197120af762cc