Another execution in their Florida. A man sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and their two children in 1994 was executed yesterday, July 31, 2025, with deadly injectable chemicals.
US Air Force Officer
60 -year -old Edward Zakzzevski, a former US Air Force Officer, was sentenced to the murders of Silvia, his 34 -year -old wife, their son Edward, 7, and their daughter Anna, 5 years old.
Escaped to Hawaii
He fled to Hawaii, where he was hidden using a false identity, but was delivered at the beginning four months later, after being recognized by citizens after a television broadcast for the still unmistakable murders.
The execution of Edward Zakzzevski is the 27th execution for 2025 in the US – their number increases this year. In Florida, nine of them became.
Of the 27 executions this year, most -23- were made with injectable deadly chemicals.
Death execution with nitrogen inhalation
Three – two in Alabama, one in Louisiana – were caused by suffocation due to nitrogen inhalation, a very controversial method, as UN experts call it a form of “torture”.
Two more were made by executive excerpts in South Carolina; before this year, this method has been used in the country since 2010.
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states. In the other three – California, Oregon, Pennsylvania – a moratorium is applied to its implementation, with decisions of their rulers.