With Michael Bell's execution in Florida on Tuesday, the U.S. has now had more executions in any given year since 2015, when there were 28.

According to a review by The Marshall Project, at least 34 boys who stayed at the infamous Dozier School and another 16 sent to Okeechobee — a separate boys’ school with a troubled history — ended up on Florida’s death row.

Florida matched a modern-era record for executions in a year when Michael Bell was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 1993 murders of two people outside a Jacksonville bar.

As the state prepares to execute Jacksonville killer Michael Bell, here's a look at five of the most reprehensible cases this century in Duval County.

Michael Bell would be the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with Edward Zakrzewski scheduled to be the ninth later this month. The state executed six people in 2023 but only one last year.