{"id":79755,"date":"2026-10-09T12:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/florida-execution-called-off-after-desantis-withdraws-death-warrant-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:57:20","slug":"florida-execution-called-off-after-desantis-withdraws-death-warrant-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/florida-execution-called-off-after-desantis-withdraws-death-warrant-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida execution called off after DeSantis withdraws death warrant for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor halts execution of William Lee Thompson, after Christa Pike survived failed lethal injections<\/p>\n<p>Ron DeSantis cancelled a planned execution in the state on Friday, days before a 74-year-old man was due to be killed by lethal injection.<\/p>\n<p>The move \u2013 the first time Florida\u2019s governor has withdrawn a death warrant in his nearly eight years in office \u2013 comes just over a week after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/01\/christa-pike-tennessee-governor-executions-year-pause\">botched execution<\/a> of Christa Pike in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/09\/desantis-halts-florida-execution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor halts execution of William Lee Thompson, after Christa Pike survived failed lethal injections Ron DeSantis cancelled a planned execution in the state on Friday, days before a 74-year-old man was due to be killed by lethal injection. The move \u2013 the first time Florida\u2019s governor has withdrawn a death warrant in his nearly eight &#8230; <a title=\"Florida execution called off after DeSantis withdraws death warrant for first time\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/florida-execution-called-off-after-desantis-withdraws-death-warrant-for-first-time\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida execution called off after DeSantis withdraws death warrant for first time\">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-79755","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\/79755","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=79755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}