Convicted serial killer executed in Florida

MIAMI - A 62-year-old man known as the "Cross-Country Killer" was executed by lethal injection in the southern US state of Florida on Thursday.

Glen Rogers was put to death at 6.16pm (2216 GMT) at the Florida State Prison in Raiford for the November 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs and other murders.

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 Louisiana.

This undated handout image released by the Florida Department of Corrections shows the booking photo of death row inmate Glen Rogers. A 62-year-old man known as the "Cross-Country Killer" is to executed by lethal injection in the southern US state of Florida on May 15, 2025. Glen Rogers is to be put to death at 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) 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 that same year of Sandra Gallagher, 33, in California and was a suspect in the murders of two other women, in Mississippi and Louisiana. There have been 15 executions in the (Photo by Florida Department of Corrections/AFP)

There have now been 16 executions in the United States this year: 12 by lethal injection; two by firing squad; and two using nitrogen gas.

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 Donald Trump is a proponent of capital punishment and, on his first day in office, called for an expansion of its use "for the vilest crimes." - AFP