{"id":420019,"date":"2026-10-06T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420019\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:06:26","slug":"florida-continues-to-lead-nation-in-executions-this-year-as-desantis-signs-latest-death-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420019\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida continues to lead nation in executions this year as DeSantis signs latest death warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida continues to lead the nation in executions as the next one is set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Jesse Guardado for a 2004 Walton County murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to that death warrant, Guardado was sentenced to death for the murder of 75-year-old Jackie Malone. He stabbed Maline several times before he took her purse, jewelry box, briefcase and cellphone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Guardado was indicted for first degree murder and robbery with a weapon in Walton County, and entered a guilty plea without a plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His execution is set for November 5. So far this year, there have been 16 executions in Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/executions\/2026\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/deathpenaltyinfo.org\/executions\/2026\">according<\/a> to the Death Penalty Information Center.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida continues to lead the nation in executions as the next one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[165923,4536,13152,4537,28,30,29,165922,165924,165921,74045,6267],"class_list":["post-420019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-165923","tag-death-row","tag-death-warrant","tag-executions","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-guardado","tag-jackie-malone","tag-jesse-guardado","tag-walton","tag-walton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420019","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=420019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}