Ron DeSantis began stepping up executions at a rate unseen in modern times in Florida. Not since 2017 when Arkansas carried out two death sentences on the same day has a state planned back-to-back executions. Florida Department of Corrections records show multiple executions on a single day were more common in the past, with the last being on May 12, 1964. Before Arkansas executed two inmates on the same day in 2017, Texas executed two convicted killers on a single day in 2000, the year it put to death 40 prisoners. Florida executions are all by injection of a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections.