5 things to know about Florida executions

Published June 18, 2014 2:57pm ET



STARKE, Fla. (AP) — John Ruthell Henry, a man convicted of killing his two wives and his 5-year-old stepson, is scheduled to be Florida’s 43rd execution by lethal injection in 14 years Wednesday. It would be the 13th execution in Florida since April 2013 and the 18th since Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011.

THE HISTORY: The first person executed by lethal injection in Florida was Terry Sims, who was convicted of the 1977 murder of a volunteer deputy sheriff during a drugstore robbery near Orlando. Sims died proclaiming his innocence on Feb. 23, 2000.

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