Florida, Michael Bell and as execution
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It's done. Michael Bell, 54, has been lethally injected for the 1993 ambush murders of a young couple in Jacksonville in a case of mistaken identity.
Michael Bell will be the 50th person from Duval County put to death in Florida. But Duval's ties to Florida's executions run much deeper.
Michael Bell, scheduled for execution July 15, is one of dozens of death row inmates who were students at Florida's infamously abusive Dozier school.
Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was executed by lethal injection on July 15 for killing two people in 1993.
Michael Bell, set to be executed Tuesday, is among at least 34 boys from the Dozier School later sentenced to death. Did abuse make them more violent?