{"id":413234,"date":"2026-09-28T23:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413234\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:12:17","slug":"florida-set-to-execute-77-year-old-death-row-inmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413234\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida set to execute 77-year-old death row inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Florida is scheduled to execute 77-year-old death row inmate Curtis Beasley tomorrow for the 1995 murder of a 62-year-old woman in Polk County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If carried out, Beasley will become the 16th person put to death in the state this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/09\/11\/daniel-conahan-executed-florida-families-suspected-victims-seek-closure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/09\/11\/daniel-conahan-executed-florida-families-suspected-victims-seek-closure\/\">Daniel Conahan executed in Florida as families of suspected victims seek closure<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Catholic leaders are making a final push, urging Gov. Ron DeSantis to stay the execution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIn Florida, we can combine both justice and mercy by not resorting to executions,\u201d a Catholic leader said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state has conducted 43 executions under DeSantis. Two more executions are currently scheduled for October.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Florida is scheduled to execute 77-year-old death row inmate Curtis Beasley tomorrow for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[163682,28,125759,163684,30,29,163683,90751],"class_list":["post-413234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-curtis-beasley-execution","tag-florida","tag-florida-death-row","tag-florida-executions-2026","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-polk-county-murder-1995","tag-ron-desantis-executions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}