Florida Executes Curtis Wilkie Beasley

Florida executed 77-year-old Curtis Wilkie Beasley by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Sept. 29, 2026, for the 1995 murder and robbery of Carolyn Monfort, whom he fatally struck with a hammer. Beasley had been staying at Monfort’s home while doing maintenance work; after the killing, he fled in her car and was later arrested in Alabama using a false name. He maintained his innocence, and his lawyers argued that his age and cognitive decline made execution cruel and unusual, but the Florida Supreme Court rejected the challenge and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene. Beasley was Florida’s 16th execution of 2026 and its seventh inmate over 70 to be put to death; Florida accounted for 16 of the 29 executions nationwide.