Murder

Ronald Palmer Heath is scheduled to die by lethal injection Feb. 10. According to court records, Heath and his brother robbed and killed a traveling salesman they met a bar in 1989.

The decision comes more than five years after the brutal murders of former Lakeland City Commissioner Edie "Edie" Yates Henderson and her husband shocked the Lakeland community.

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, was sentenced to death for killing his former manager at a Palatka convenience store.

Frank Athen Walls faces a Dec. 18 lethal injection for the murder of a couple during home invasion robbery. Walls would be the 19th person set for execution in Florida in 2025.

Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, was sentenced to death twice in Brevard County, both of which were reversed on appeal. A final trial in 1986 brought a third death sentence for the murder of Rebecca Kunash.

Mark Allen Geralds, 58, was convicted in the 1989 murder of Tressa Pettibone in Panama City Beach. He is scheduled for lethal injection on Dec. 9.

Mark Geralds, 58, was found guilty in 1990 of first-degree murder, armed robbery, burglary and grand theft auto. A jury unanimously recommended the death penalty.

She was 21-year-old Maureen L. Minor Rowan of Tampa, a mother of two young children. As for her killer, the Sumter County Sheriff's Office says her estranged husband, now dead, is a "person of interest."

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.