Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Tuesday for Glen Edward Rogers, 62, scheduling his execution for May 15, 2025. Rogers was convicted of separate murders in Florida and California in the mid-1990s.
Rogers is scheduled to die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison, located near Starke. This marks the fifth death warrant signed by Governor DeSantis this year.
The Florida conviction stems from the November 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs. Rogers and Cribbs were reportedly seen leaving a bar together in Gibsonton, Florida.
Two days later, Cribbs was discovered stabbed to death in a Tampa-area hotel bathroom. Rogers was convicted and sentenced to death for her murder in 1997.
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Prior to his Florida sentencing, Rogers had already received a death sentence in California in 1999 for the murder of Sandra Gallagher.
Gallagher met Rogers at a Van Nuys, California, bar in September 1995. Her badly burned body was found the following day in her truck, which was located near Rogers’ apartment at the time.
Authorities have also indicated that Rogers is a suspect in several other unsolved homicides across the United States.
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Rogers’ scheduled execution follows a series of others in Florida this year.
- On March 20, 63-year-old Edward James was executed for the 1993 killings of an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother.
- James Dennis Ford, 64, was put to death on Feb. 13 for the 1997 murders of a married couple.
- Michael Tanzi, 48, was executed on Tuesday, April 8, for the kidnapping and murder of a woman in the Florida Keys in 2000.
Additionally, Jeffrey Hutchinson is scheduled for execution on May 1, preceding Rogers’ date.
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