Stark, Fla. (AP) — Florida has been at a rapid pace of executions this year. One convicted murderer is due to die this week, and the state will be the sixth death in 2025 on June 10th.
Glenn Rogers, 62, is scheduled to die from a fatal injection at Florida State Jail on Thursday after a 1995 stab wound near Tampa by Tina Marie Cribbs. Rogers, who claimed he killed many people across the country, was also sentenced to death in California for the murder of another woman.
Rogers was arrested for driving Cribs’ car in Kentucky and claimed she had loaned him.
There were also allegations that Rogers and others were involved in the OJ Simpson murder case and that he was in charge of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. This appeared in a 2012 documentary and a correspondence between Rogers and the Criminal Craftsman, but Los Angeles police and prosecutors said he was not a murderer.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a warrant last week of Anthony Wainwright, 54, who was found guilty of luring, rape and murdering Carmen Gayhart in 1994.
Court records show Wainwright and another man fled early from a North Carolina prison and were captured in Mississippi after a shootout with police.
Both Rogers and Wainwright have pending appeals that could delay their execution. In 2023 there were six executions in Florida, but in 2024 there was only one.
