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DeSantis signs death warrant for Charlotte County ‘Hog Trail Killer’

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TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a death warrant for inmate Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., who was known as the “Hog Trail Killer” and who was convicted of a 1996 murder in Charlotte County. Conahan, 72, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Sept. 10, according to the warrant, which put the window for the execution at Florida State Prison near Starke between noon that day and noon Sept. 17. After a modern-era record 19 executions last year , Florida has executed 12 inmates in 2026. The warrant for Conahan is the 15th DeSantis has signed this year. William Frances Silvia, 61, is scheduled to die Aug. 18 for fatally shooting his estranged wife at her mother’s Casselberry-area home in 2006. Harold Gene Lucas, 74, is to be executed Sept. 1 over the death of his 16-year-old former girlfriend in Bonita Springs almost 50 years ago. Appearing at the Florida Sheriffs Association Summer Conference at Trump National Doral on July 28, DeSantis said capital punishment is ne

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