Overview
- Curtis Wilkie Beasley was executed by a three-drug lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026.
- Beasley was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery and grand theft auto for the 1995 killing of 62-year-old Carolyn Monfort and was sentenced to death in 1998.
- His lawyers argued he had cognitive decline and needed comprehensive testing before execution but the Florida Supreme Court denied that appeal and the case had a final appeal pending at the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Florida has carried out 16 executions in 2026, accounting for a large share of U.S. executions this year as the state uses a three-drug lethal injection protocol and often sets execution dates about a month after issuing warrants.
- Victims' relatives said Beasley's death brought closure while critics highlighted questions about evidence from the decades-old case and the ethics of executing elderly or cognitively impaired inmates, a debate likely to fuel further legal challenges and reviews.