Vera Lucia Pappaterra
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Death penalty protesters sit outside the Florida State Prison near Starke as Michael Tanzi was executed on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Tanzi was sentenced to death for killing Janet Acosta, a Miami Herald employee of 25 years.
Vera Lucia Pappaterra
Vera Lucia Pappaterra is The Alligator's Fall 2025 Caiman editor and a junior journalism and history student. She previously served as the enterprise race and equity reporter and the university general assignment reporter. In her free time, she enjoys being a menace on wheels (bike wheels).
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By Ryan Friedenberg | Dec. 27Students are seen entering and exiting Marston Science Library on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025.
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By Bayden Armstrong | Dec. 9Protestors of the death penalty sit outside Florida State Prison and pray in opposition to the execution of Mark Allen Geralds. Geralds was executed in Raiford on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.
