{"id":77576,"date":"2026-08-18T17:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/florida-carries-out-its-13th-execution-this-year-in-uss-busiest-death-chamber\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:56:21","slug":"florida-carries-out-its-13th-execution-this-year-in-uss-busiest-death-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/florida-carries-out-its-13th-execution-this-year-in-uss-busiest-death-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida carries out its 13th execution this year in US\u2019s busiest death chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US supreme court declined to halt execution of William Frances Silvia, and state has two executions next month<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/capital-punishment\">executed<\/a> on Tuesday, continuing the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/01\/florida-death-penalty-ron-desantis\">aggressive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/28\/florida-executes-first-of-two-men-single-day\">use<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/01\/florida-death-penalty-desantis-election\">of<\/a> the death penalty in the final term of the Republican governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>William Frances Silvia, 61, was pronounced dead at 6.11pm after receiving a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/18\/florida-13th-execution-william-frances-silvia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US supreme court declined to halt execution of William Frances Silvia, and state has two executions next month A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law was executed on Tuesday, continuing the state\u2019s aggressive use of the death penalty in the final term of the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. &#8230; <a title=\"Florida carries out its 13th execution this year in US\u2019s busiest death chamber\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/florida-carries-out-its-13th-execution-this-year-in-uss-busiest-death-chamber\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida carries out its 13th execution this year in US\u2019s busiest death chamber\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}