MULBERRY, Fla. - Florida is set to carry out its 12th execution of 2025 on Wednesday evening, when 63-year-old David Pittman will be put to death by lethal injection.

The backstory:

Pittman was convicted of murdering his ex-wife, Bonnie Knowles, along with her parents, Clarence and Barbara Knowles, in 1990. The killings took place in Polk County and Pittman has spent more than three decades on death row.

Pittman’s defense team mounted two recent appeals — one before the Florida Supreme Court and another before the U.S. Supreme Court — arguing that he is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution under the Eighth Amendment, which bans cruel and unusual punishment.

Both appeals were denied, clearing the way for his execution.

By the numbers:

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