Miami, Florida - A 62-year-old man who was known as the "Cross-Country Killer" was by lethal injection in Florida on Thursday.
Glen Rogers, a 62-year-old man who was known as the "Cross-Country Killer," was executed by lethal injection in Florida on Thursday. © Florida Department of Corrections / AFP
Glen Rogers was put to death at 6:16 PM ET at the Florida State Prison in Raiford for the November 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs.
Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two children, was stabbed to death, and her body was found in a hotel bathtub.
Rogers was also convicted of the murder in that same year of Sandra Gallagher (33) in California and was a suspect in the murders of at least two other women, one in Mississippi and another in Louisiana.
There have now been 16 executions in the US this year. 12 were carried out by , two by , and two using .
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states, while three others – California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania – have moratoriums in place.
President is a proponent of capital punishment and, on his first day in office, called for an expansion of its use "for the vilest crimes."
