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DeSantis said he thinks the death penalty could be a “strong deterrent” if sentences were more quickly carried out.

Authorities say 65-year-old Norman Mearle Grim Jr. was pronounced dead by lethal injection. Grim was convicted of sexual battery and first-degree murder of his neighbor Cynthia Campbell.

A public defender argues against the process that allowed Bryan Jennings to be selected for a death warrant after he “languished on Death Row for more than three years without a lawyer.”

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, was found guilty of the 1988 rape and fatal stabbing of a convenience store manager in Palatka.

In an unusual move, Norman Grim, 65, will not attempt to try to prevent his Oct. 28 execution, according to court documents.

Samuel Lee Smithers was one of the oldest inmates put to death. His lethal injection extended the state's record for executions in a year to 14, with two more slated in the weeks ahead.

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Victor Tony Jones, 64, received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison near Starke.

As attorneys for Victor Tony Jones ask the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his exeuction, Norman Mearle Grim Jr. has been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Oct. 28.

Justices rejected arguments about the abuse Victor Tony Jones suffered at the now-shuttered Okeechobee School.

His final appeals denied, 63-year-old David Pittman died by lethal injection Wednesday evening at Florida State Prison.

David Pittman, who was convicted of killing three members of his estranged wife’s family in Mulberry. If he is executed Sept. 17, he would be a record 12th inmate put to death this year in Florida.