STARKE, Fla. — A former airman convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year.

A death warrant signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis directs that 60-year-old Edward Zakrzewski be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. at the Florida State Prison near Starke. Zakrzewski was sentenced to death for using a crowbar, a rope and a machete to murder his wife and two children in 1994 in their Okaloosa County home.

The execution of Edward Zakrzewski set a record for the most in Florida in a single year, 9, since the death penalty was restored.

Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has executed nine people in 2025, more than than any other state, and set a new state record.

Edward Zakrzewski and his wife Sylvia had been going through marital problems; he had told a neighbor that he would rather kill his family than go through a divorce