Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline “Florida’s governor is a veteran.

Florida’s execution pace is testing the limits of the law — and its workforceI spent years inside Florida’s execution chamber as warden of Florida State Prison, personally overseeing three executions.

Once again, Arizona stands at a crossroad in its often-troubled history with capital punishment. Republican state legislators have proposed expanding the state’s methods of execution to include lethal ...