TALLAHASSY, Fla. (AP) — The man who killed his wife and two children in 1994 after she asked for a divorce is scheduled to be executed in Florida on Tuesday under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II is scheduled to die on July 31 in the state’s ninth scheduled run this year. He pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in 1996 and was sentenced to three deaths for the murder of his wife, Silvia Zakruzewski, son, Edward Zakruzewski, age 7, and Anna Zakruzewski.5.
The man beat his wife with a clover and a machete, and on June 9, 1994, killed his children with a machete in Okaloosa County.
He eventually became law enforcement after the lawsuit was unfolded on the TV show “Unsolved Mystery,” according to court documents.
Another death row man, Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is due to die July 15th in a fatal injection at Florida State Jail. He is convicted of killing two people outside a bar.
Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was sentenced to rape and murder of a woman in Florida, and was executed last week in the same prison after receiving a fatal injection.
The state executed six people in 2023, but last year it ran one.
