Polk County, Florida

A Florida man has been executed for a murder committed in Polk County in 1995, according to a Florida news outlet. The report confirms the carrying out of the death sentence but offers no further details in the available coverage. The execution closes a decades-old case that had been working through Florida's justice system for nearly thirty years.

A jury has found TJ Wiggins guilty on all charges in the trial over the 2020 triple murder in Frostproof, Florida. Wiggins faced charges in the deaths of three people killed at a home in the small Polk County city, a case that drew sustained attention in central Florida. The verdict closes the trial phase, with sentencing now the next step in the proceedings.