The 16th Execution of 2025
A serial killer used his last words on Earth to shout-out President Donald Trump on May 15, 2025, according to USA TODAY.
"President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready
to go," Glen
Rogers, known as the "Casanova Killer," said as he lay
strapped to an execution gurney seconds before three drugs coursed through his
veins and ended his life at the Florida State Prison in Raiford.
His last words were reported by the
Tampa Bay Times and the
Associated Press, with reporters representing both outlets as witnesses to
the execution.
Randy Roberson, whose mother Andy Lou Jiles Sutton was a
victim of the Casanova Killer, witnessed the execution and said that Rogers'
comment about Trump seemed to confuse people in the room.
"I was like, 'Where did that even come from?'" he
said.
His wife, Amy Roberson − also a witness to the execution −
said she thought: "What the hell?"
In addition to his support for Trump, Rogers expressed his
love for his family. He also addressed the victims
of his crimes.
“I know there’s a lot of questions that you need answers
to," he said. "I promise you in the near future the questions will be
answered and I hope in someway will bring you closure."
Here's what you need to know about Rogers and his victims,
and what Trump has said about the death penalty.
Why was Rogers executed?
Glen Edward Rogers, 62, was executed Thursday by lethal
injection for the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, one of four
single mothers in their 30s with reddish hair who fell victim to the
so-called "Casanova Killer." Rogers was known both as the
"Casanova Killer" for his good looks and ability to charm his future
victims, and as the "Cross Country Killer" because the victims all
lived in different states: California, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.
"He's an animal," one of his victim's sisters said
in court before Rogers was sentenced to death, according to an archived report
from the Associated Press. "He's about the evilest thing I think I've ever
imagined."
Soon after his arrest, Rogers
claimed to have killed Nicole
Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles in June 1994, and
about 70 people overall. There was no evidence to back that up.
Rogers − a native of Hamilton, Ohio − was pronounced dead at
6:16 p.m., becoming the 16th
inmate executed in the U.S. this year and the fifth in Florida.
Another three men are set to be executed in the U.S. next week, in Texas,
Indiana and Tennessee.
Authorities connected five victims to the Casanova Killer.
Four of them were mothers with reddish hair in their 30s. Three of the murders
happened within a six-day period.
·
Mark Peters, a 72-year-old retired electrician
in Hamilton, Ohio, with whom Rogers lived with briefly, was found dead in a
shack owned by Rogers' family in January 1994 in Beattyville, Kentucky.
·
Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mother of three,
of Santa Monica, California, killed on Sept. 28, 1995 in Van Nuys. Her body was
found in her burning vehicle. She had met Rogers in a bar the night of her
murder.
·
Linda Price, a 34-year-old mother of two, found
stabbed to death in the bathtub of her home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Nov. 3,
1995. Price briefly lived with Rogers, telling her mother: "He is my dream
man," according to an archived story in the Dayton Daily News.
·
Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two,
found stabbed to death in a Tampa, Florida hotel bathtub on Nov. 7, 1995. Like
Gallagher, she had met Rogers at a bar on the night of her murder.
·
Andy Lou Jiles Sutton, a 37-year-old mother of
four: three sons and a daughter who were 19, 17, 8, and 6 when she was found
stabbed to death in her bed on Nov. 9, 1995 in of Bossier City, Louisiana.
Sutton and Rogers met before her murder and are believed to have slept
together.
What has Trump said about executions?
Trump is a staunch supporter of the death penalty and has
called for the ultimate punishment to be carried out expeditiously for
murderers languishing on death row for decades.
He has also said the punishment should be used for migrants
who kill Americans, people who kill police officers, and drug
dealers and human traffickers.
Earlier this year, Trump
issued an executive
order restoring federal executions.
"Before, during, and after the founding of the United
States, our cities, States, and country have continuously relied upon capital
punishment as the ultimate deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest
crimes," his order said. "Our Founders knew well that only capital
punishment can bring justice and restore order in response to such evil."
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