Gainesville scored higher than cities such as Daytona Beach and Jacksonville, who scored 39 and 73, respectively.

“The victim’s family wanted me to thank the governor on their behalf,” said Jordan Kirkland, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Corrections. Though they witnessed the execution, their identities were not released.

The Matheshon House was built in the late 1850s by Alexander Matheson, and his wife Harriet Mary Perry, just a few years after the city was founded in 1854, making it the second oldest residence in the city.

“We saw what I think a lot of people have now seen over the years, some of the missteps of modern academia, turning your back on the core pillars of Western civilization, the foundational principles that made the United States what it's been,” DeSantis said.

On Saturday, November 22, from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M., all MCFR fire stations throughout Marion County will be open to the public for a special open house event.

“Bring the Harvest Home” campaign accepts food, baby items and household goods at 10 drop-off sites this month

But First Amendment experts say speech could only be punished if it crosses the line into a threat of violence. That’s currently in question in this federal lawsuit in the Northern District of Florida.

Members of the State Board of Education grilled the vice chair of the Alachua County school board at their meeting on Thursday in the Panhandle over Facebook posts she and other board members wrote about the deaths of conservative figures, including activist Charlie Kirk.

Since DeSantis became governor, the number of executions has fluctuated, starting with a small number of executions in 2019, to having no executions between 2020 and 2022. Florida carried out six executions in 2023, one in 2024, and now in 2025, the record-breaking total.

Growing up in Gainesville’s Eastside and going to a Title I school where “a lot of my peers were victims of gun violence or perpetrators of it,” Tubbs’s personal experience inspired her to create social change.