A nonprofit identified at least 50 people who attended Dozier and Okeechobee, a similar state-run reform school, who ended up on death row. The documented abuses at those schools have advocates asking for leniency.

Michael Bell would be the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with Edward Zakrzewski scheduled to be the ninth later this month. The state executed six people in 2023 but only one last year.

Barring a reprieve, Michael Bell will become the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with Edward Zakrzewski scheduled to be the ninth on July 31.

A 54-year-old man convicted of a 1993 revenge killing is to be put to death in Florida on Tuesday in the 26th execution in the United States this year, the most in a decade. Twenty executions have been carried out by lethal injection in the United States this year.