A man on Florida’s death row took the opportunity to share a message with the world on Thursday in recognition of his support for President Donald Trump.
"President Trump has always made America great," Glen Rogers, 62, said before receiving the fatal injection.
Rogers was executed for murdering his 34-year-old mother he met in a bar in 1995.
According to the visitor log, Rogers also thanked his wife in the final statement, who visited him in prison. He also said somewhat mysteriously, "In the near future, your question will be answered" without any detailed description.
The fatal injection began after giving Trump a message, who quietly lay in the process.
The execution was held in the Florida prison near Stark. Authorities said Rogers was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m.
Rogers, an alleged serial killer who once reviewed possible connections to the OJ Simpson case in the 1990s, was executed for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs.
Cribs and Rogers meet at the bar. She was found dead in a Tampa motel room.
Rogers also sentenced a separate death penalty in California for extorting Sandra Gallagher in 1995, three mothers he met at a bar in Van Nuys, California. That killing came weeks before the Cribs murder. Rogers drove Cribbs' car shortly after his death after chasing the highway in Kentucky.
Rogers was named a suspect, but has never been convicted in several other killings across the country, once told police that he had killed about 70 people. He later withdrew the claim, but was once the subject of a documentary, including a 2012 film called "My Brother's Serial Killer," which included his brother Clay and a criminal with a wide range of correspondences with Rogers.
The documentary raises questions about whether Rogers could lead to the stabbing death of Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
The former football star and celebrity Simpson was acquitted during a murder trial that attracted media attention in 1995. Los Angeles police and prosecutors later said after the documentary release that they believed Rogers was not involved in the Simpson and Goldman Sachs killings.
"We know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. We have no reason to believe Mr. Rogers is involved," a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department at the time said.
Simpson, who had always claimed to be innocent, was later found responsible for the death in another civil case and was subsequently sentenced to nine years in prison for irrelevant charges. Simpson, 76, died in April 2024 after fighting cancer.
Originally from Hamilton, Ohio, Rogers has also been labeled as a "Casanova Killer" or a "off-road Killer" in various media reports. His so-called similar characteristics to the proven female victims: age in his 30s, petite frame and red hair.
Correctional Services spokesman Ted Veerman said Rogers woke up at 3:45 a.m. hours before the execution. Rogers had a pizza, chocolate and soda, he said.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Rogers' final appeal on Wednesday without comment.
Rogers' attorneys have filed several appeals in state and federal courts without success. One argument is that newly enacted state legislation authorized trafficking in young children, which clearly shows that the abuse he suffered as a child is now taken seriously and is dealing with Rogers' life sentence. This argument was rejected.
According to the Department of Corrections, Florida uses a three-toxic cocktail for a lethal injection: a sedative, a paralysis and a drug that stops the heart.
Rogers became Florida's fifth inmate this year.
Anthony Wainwright is the next Florida prisoner to be scheduled for a death warrant signed on June 10 in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Wainwright, 54, was sentenced in 1994 to kidnap a woman from a supermarket parking lot in Lake City and rape and kill her.