The executions marked the first time since 1964 that Florida executed two inmates on the same day, according to a database from the Death Penalty Information Center. On July 27, the Florida bishops' conference issued a pastoral letter describing capital punishment as part of "a culture of death." The Death Penalty Information Center's 2025 year-end report found that Florida was one of four states that drove an increase in U.S. executions that year. Earlier this year, Pope Leo XIV delivered a video message to Catholic death penalty abolitionists marking 15 years since the abolition of the death penalty in his home state of Illinois. As of July 28, Florida's next execution is scheduled for Aug. 18, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center.