一名77岁的佛罗里达州男子周二被执行死刑，罪名是40多年前杀害一名治安官副手，这是共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯继续加快执行死刑步伐以来，该“阳光之州”今年的第18起死刑执行。
A 77-year-old Florida man was executed on Tuesday for killing a sheriff's deputy more than 40 years ago, marking the Sunshine State's 18th execution of the year as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis continues an accelerated pace of executions.
威廉·里夫斯于下午6时12分在斯塔克附近的佛罗里达州立监狱被宣告死亡，执行方式为三药注射。他因1986年9月印第安河县治安官副手理查德·拉茨科斯基遭枪杀一案，被判一级谋杀罪名成立。里夫斯表示没有遗言。
William Reaves was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke following a three-drug injection. He was convicted of first-degree murder in connection with the September 1986 shooting death of Indian River County sheriff's deputy Richard Raczkoski. Reaves said he did not have any last words.
注射开始约30秒后，里夫斯深吸几口气，随后停止活动。几分钟后，典狱长摇晃里夫斯的肩膀并高呼其名，但该男子无任何反应。医护人员检查心跳及其他生命体征后，约一分钟之后宣告里夫斯死亡。
About 30 seconds after the injection began, Reaves took several big breaths and then stopped moving. A few minutes later, the team warden shook Reaves’ shoulders and shouted his name, but the man gave no response. A medic checked for a heartbeat or other signs of life, and Reaves was pronounced dead about a minute later.
拉茨科斯基的弟弟马克在旁见证执行后对记者表示，哥哥终于伸张了正义；印第安河县治安官埃里克·弗劳尔斯则称，他视此次执行为了结而非伸张正义。
Raczkoski's brother, Marc, told reporters after witnessing the execution that his brother finally received justice, while Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers said that he viewed the execution as closure rather than justice.
弗劳尔斯在新闻发布会上说：“我们大家要是都能活到77岁、还能这么安详地死去，那该多好啊。依我看，这根本算不上伸张正义。”根据法庭记录，1986年9月23日，拉茨科斯基接到报警，赶赴维罗海滩一家便利店的公用电话亭，那是里夫斯拨打的911电话。
"Would we all be so lucky to be 77 years old and to die so peacefully," Flowers said at a press conference. "That’s not justice in any way, in my opinion."
官方称，副手到场后，两人开始交谈，此时一把枪从里夫斯裤子里掉了出来。两人为争夺枪支发生扭打，最终里夫斯重新控制了武器。
On Sept. 23, 1986, Raczkoski responded to a 911 call that Reaves had made from a payphone at a Vero Beach convenience store, according to court records. After the deputy arrived at the scene and the two men began talking, a gun fell out of Reaves’ pants, officials said.
调查人员称，拉茨科斯基试图逃跑时，里夫斯向其连开四枪。拉茨科斯基当天因伤势过重不治身亡。
The two men struggled over the weapon before Reaves eventually regained control of it. Raczkoski was attempting to run away when Reaves shot him four times, according to investigators.
Reaves于枪击案发生后约一年被判有罪并被判处死刑。佛罗里达州最高法院后来因检察官存在利益冲突而推翻了定罪，命令重新审判。第二次审判后，Reaves再次被定罪并被判处死刑，此后上诉均未成功。
He died from his wounds later that day. Reaves was convicted and sentenced to death about a year after the shooting. The Florida Supreme Court later overturned the conviction due to a conflict of interest with the prosecutor and ordered a new trial.
美国最高法院周二拒绝了Reaves暂缓执行的要求，以及要求法院不置评其案件的请愿书。州最高法院上周也驳回了Reaves寻求阻止执行的申诉。
After the second trial, Reaves was again convicted and sentenced to death, and subsequent appeals were unsuccessful. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Reaves’ request for a stay of execution and petition asking the court to review his case without comment on Tuesday.
Reaves的律师还挑战了佛罗里达州的三种药物注射死刑方案。根据矫正部，该州的执行通过注射镇静剂、麻醉剂和一种能停止心脏的药物进行。法院此前已就类似挑战维持了该方案。
The state Supreme Court also rejected Reaves’ appeals last week that sought to halt the execution. His attorneys challenged Florida’s three-drug lethal injection protocol. Executions in the state are carried out through the injection of a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections.
佛罗里达州的执行方式与田纳西州等州使用的单药注射不同。田纳西州死囚Christa Pike曾两次接受戊安尼巴比妥注射，但幸存下来，上个月被紧急送往医院。此后Pike已从医院获释并返回监狱。
The court has previously upheld the protocol against similar challenges. Florida's method is different from the single-drug injection used in states like Tennessee, where death row inmate Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital and was rushed to the hospital last month. Pike has since been released from the hospital and returned to prison.
Reaves的律师还辩称，建议判处死刑的陪审员从未被告知美国退伍军人事务部因与越战服役相关的创伤后应激障碍，将这位陆军退伍军人评为100%残疾。
Reaves' attorneys also argued that jurors who recommended the death penalty were never made aware that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had rated the Army veteran as 100% disabled because of post-traumatic stress disorder linked to his service in the Vietnam War.
周一，超过100名退伍军人致信德西塔，请求阻止执行，指出了上述因素。Reaves是今年被处决的第八名70岁以上的佛罗里达囚犯。
More than 100 military veterans appealed to DeSantis in a letter on Monday to halt the execution, pointing to those factors. Reaves was the eighth Florida prisoner over age 70 put to death this year.
自2025年以来，德西塔签署了一系列死刑令，佛罗里达州加速了其执行节奏。去年，德西塔监督了19次执行，创下该州纪录，超过了自1976年恢复死刑以来任何一位佛罗里达州长的单年执行次数，约占2025年美国47次执行总数约40%。
Florida has accelerated its pace of executions amid a flurry of death warrants signed by DeSantis since 2025. The governor oversaw a state record 19 executions last year, more than any other Florida governor in a single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, accounting for approximately 40% of the U.S. total of 47 executions for 2025.
如果64岁的杰西·瓜达多（Jesse Guardado）按照原定计划于11月5日被执行死刑（他因2004年抢劫并杀害一名女性以购买毒品而被判死刑），佛罗里达州将追平去年的死刑执行记录。
Florida would tie last year's record if Jesse Guardado, 64, is put to death as scheduled on Nov. 5 for robbing and killing a woman to buy drugs in 2004.
今年迄今为止，佛罗里达州已经执行了全国32起死刑案件中的超过一半；其中就包括雷夫斯（Reaves）的案件。
Florida has carried out more than half of the 32 total executions in the country so far this year, including Reaves.
7月份，佛罗里达州在一天内执行了两名囚犯的死刑，这是该州近十年来首次出现此类情况。
In July, Florida executed two prisoners in one day, the first time a state has done so in nearly a decade.
德桑蒂斯（DeSantis）表示，他希望为那些为等待死刑判决的执行而等待了数十年的受害者家属伸张正义。
DeSantis has said he wants justice for victims’ families who have often waited decades for death sentences to be carried out.