A 24-page petition filed July 10 focused on witnesses who recently recanted testimony that helped convict Bell of two 1993 slayings.

Court Rejects Claims of Coercion and Suppressed Evidence in Decades-Old Case The Florida Supreme Court today affirmed the denial of Michael Bernard Bell's successive motion for postconviction relief and denied his request for a stay of execution,

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.