Smithers is the 14th inmate executed in Florida this year, a record that far eclispes the state's previous yearly high of eight executions, reached in 1984 and 2014.
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
Shockley is the first person executed in Missouri this year, with no other executions scheduled for the remainder of 2025.
Among the passengers was Qahtan Khalil, director of Syria’s air force intelligence, who was accused of being directly responsible for one of the bloodiest massacres of the country’s 13-year civil war.
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Danny Makki,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Most people associate mass shootings with high-profile tragedies like the massacres at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015 or Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.
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