Miami, Oct 14, 2025 (AFP) - US set to carry out four executions this week

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2025-10-15

A Florida man convicted of murdering two women he hired for sex was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, one of four executions to be carried out in the United States this week. Samuel Smithers, 72, was sentenced to death in 1999 for the 1996 killings of Christy Cowan and Denise Roach in Tampa. They had been beaten and strangled and their bodies were found in a pond. Smithers was executed at a Florida state prison at 6:15 pm (2215 GMT), t......

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