Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has made a bizarre social media flex about his state’s readiness to kill citizens on death row.
DeSantis spent Tuesday evening on his X account, posting about “the Marxist agenda” of Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani and calling Wikipedia a biased “dumpster fire.”
The governor then replied to an X post from a Florida Republican who asked him to “clear out death row,” claiming that the state was “barely” executing anyone.
DeSantis quickly snapped back by sharing a news article from Oct. 13 about the state executing a “record” 13 people so far in 2025—more than anywhere else in the U.S.
Previously, the most people executed in Florida in a single year was eight in 2014. Only one person was executed last year.
Since the article De

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