Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered the execution of Glen Edward Rogers, a convicted serial killer who has a history aiding multiple states to nefarious places. Rogers, 62, is set for lethal injection on May 15 at Florida State Prison in Starke. This is the fifth execution order in the state this year.
Convicted in 1997 for the savage stabbing of Tina Marie Cribbs in a Florida motel room, dominant Rogers was observed leaving Cribbs in embrace of a bar patron before her body was discovered two days later. He was sentenced to death again in California in 2006 for the 1995 murder of Sandra Gallagher, whose burned corpse was discovered in her truck near his house.
Carlos Roberto Rogers — known as “The Cross Country Killer” — is allegedly tied to several other unexplained missing persons cases across the country, but is only formally charged in the Florida and California murders. 
Florida state has seen a high rate of executions this year 2025. Edward James was put to death on March 20 for attacking a child in a double killing. He added that earlier, in February and April separately, James Dennis Ford and Michael Tanzi were executed using lethal injection. Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson is up next, set for death May 1 for the shotgun killings of his girlfriend and her three children.
With Rogers’ looming execution, Florida is one of many states using capital punishment aggressively under Governor DeSantis, as the nation argues over its use.
