STARKE, Fla. — Florida is maintaining its accelerated schedule of executions this year, with plans to execute another inmate by lethal injection this week, following closely behind the execution of another prisoner slated for June 10, marking the potential sixth execution by the state in 2025.
Glen Rogers, aged 62, is scheduled to be executed at Florida State Prison on Thursday for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, who was fatally stabbed in 1995 near Tampa. Rogers, who has purportedly claimed responsibility for numerous killings nationwide, had also been handed a death sentence in California for another woman’s murder.
He was apprehended in Kentucky while operating Cribbs’ vehicle, asserting that she had lent it to him.
Claims also surfaced from Rogers and others suggesting his involvement in the notorious O.J. Simpson case, purportedly implicating him in the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. These allegations were revisited in a 2012 documentary and through exchanges between Rogers and a criminal profiler. However, both Los Angeles police and prosecutors have dismissed these claims, affirming that Rogers was not the perpetrator.
Last week, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Anthony Wainwright, 54. Wainwright, convicted for the 1994 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Carmen Gayheart, had abducted her from a grocery store parking lot in Lake City, Florida.
At the time of Gayheart’s murder, Wainwright, along with an accomplice, had recently escaped from a North Carolina prison and was eventually captured in Mississippi following a police shootout, as indicated in court documents.
Both Rogers and Wainwright have pending appeals that could potentially postpone their executions. In 2023, Florida executed six inmates, whereas only one execution was carried out in 2024.