Florida is set Tuesday to carry out its 18th execution of the year under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ aggressive use of the death penalty in his final term.
William Reaves, 77, was sentenced to death after being convicted of first-degree murder for the 1986 shooting of Indian River County Deputy Richard Raczkowski. He would become Florida’s eighth prisoner over the age of 70 to be executed this year, which has highlighted the nation’s aging death-row population and underscored how Florida has outpaced the rest of the country in executions…