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Florida executed a record 19 death row inmates in 2025, and so far in 2026 has executed five more.
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Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
The plaintiffs – a group of advocacy organizations that represent inmates – are requesting air-conditioning be installed in every inmate housing area in every state-run prison.
—Leigh Waldman, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
Coincidentally, Hitchcock killed the teenaged girl just two weeks after fellow death row inmate Zeigler was sentenced to death for the brutal killings of his wife, her parents, and a customer at his furniture store on Christmas Eve 1975, less than a mile from the Hitchcock home.
—Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
Operating more as a psychiatric asylum, the doctors experiment on the inmates — who actually volunteered to be a part of the program — with different treatments and methods.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
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Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
The plaintiffs – a group of advocacy organizations that represent inmates – are requesting air-conditioning be installed in every inmate housing area in every state-run prison.
—Leigh Waldman, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
Coincidentally, Hitchcock killed the teenaged girl just two weeks after fellow death row inmate Zeigler was sentenced to death for the brutal killings of his wife, her parents, and a customer at his furniture store on Christmas Eve 1975, less than a mile from the Hitchcock home.
—Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
Operating more as a psychiatric asylum, the doctors experiment on the inmates — who actually volunteered to be a part of the program — with different treatments and methods.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inmate
prisoner
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The story centers on a unit of nine soldiers – drawn from across the military hierarchy – dispatched to Tsushima Island to bring home Koreans taken prisoner by Japanese pirate groups.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
6 May 2026
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The poor conditions were also the backdrop for a push in 1980 by the New Progressive Party governor at the time, Carlos Romero Barceló, to codify voting rights for prisoners.—
Raquel Rutledge,
ProPublica,
5 May 2026
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“Inmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inmate. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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