[1][2] The following persons were executed under British rule (1763-1783): In 1822, the Legislative Council declared murder, rape, and arson to be capital crimes.
During this period, executions were carried out by hanging locally in the county where the defendants were convicted.
[6] The following hangings took place from January 10, 1861 to June 25, 1868, when Florida seceded to the Confederacy during the Civil War.
In 1923, the state legislature passed a new laws switching the official execution method from hanging to electrocution.
Despite an early challenge in July 1929 by the circuit court of Union County over the prison superintendent being named a secondary executioner (as he was not elected or appointed), the electrocution law was held up by the state supreme court in November 1930.