Michael Bell would be the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with Edward Zakrzewski scheduled to be the ninth later this month. The state executed six people in 2023 but only one last year.

Barring a reprieve, Michael Bell will become the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with Edward Zakrzewski scheduled to be the ninth on July 31.

Attorneys for convicted killer Michael Bell have filed a last-ditch appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court to try to prevent Bell’s scheduled execution Tuesday in the 1993 murders of two people outside a Jacksonville bar.

The United States is likely to reach a 10-year high for capital punishment before August arrives with Florida set to execute death row inmate Michael Bernard Bell by lethal injection at 6 p.m. EDT Tue