Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty

Across a two-lane highway from Florida State Prison, people prayed as an execution was carried out on June 2. Alec Soth/Magnum This spring, Father Dustin Feddon began waking up in the middle of the night. Heart racing, he would stand at the bathroom sink in the dark, splashing cold water on his face until the feeling passed.