The State of Florida is scheduled to execute 61-year-old William Frances Silvia on Tuesday, August 18, at 6 p.m. ET at Florida State Prison in Raiford. Silvia was condemned for the 2006 murder of his estranged wife, Patricia Silvia, in Seminole County, following an 11-1 jury recommendation for the death penalty.
If carried out, the execution will mark the 13th in Florida this year and the 41st under Governor Ron DeSantis.
The advocacy group Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) has called for a stay of execution and requested that Silvia’s sentence be commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, which serves as the sole alternative sentence for first-degree murder under state law…