Florida man convicted of killing a woman abducted from an insurance office is set to be executed
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) – A man who is convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office is planned to be executed on Tuesday evening.
67 -year -old Kayle Bates will receive a fatal injection at 18:00 at the Florida state prison near Starke. death order It was signed by Republican Ron Desantis. Florida’s 10th death penalty in 2025 and would expand the state record for one year. Two more executions are planned in the next month.
Since the US Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, its previous annual Florida executions have been eight in 2014. Florida executes more people than other states this year, while Texas and South Carolina ranks second with four.
Bates was convicted of Janet White on June 14, 1982 in Mr. County in Florida Panhandle, and on June 14, 1982, the first -degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and sexual battery attempt.
Bates kidnapped white from his insurance office, took him to the forests behind the building, tried to rape him, stabbed him, and rupt the diamond ring from one of his fingers.
Bates lawyers applied for appeals with the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court, and he was a discriminatory of the process of signing desantis’s death warrants.
The federal case was rejected last Tuesday and the judge had problems with the statistical analysis of the case. Even if the figures are correct, the court decided that they would not necessarily prove discrimination.
On the same day, the Florida Supreme Court rejected Bates’s waiting allegations, including allegations that organic brain damage evidence was insufficient in the second penalty stage. The court decided that Bates had thirty years to raise these allegations.
A US Supreme Court’s decision is still continuing the final appeal of Bates.
28 men died in total Court order So far, this year in the USA and at least 10 people in the rest of the 2025 in seven states are planned to be killed.
Curtis Windom59 will be the 11th person executed in Florida on 28 August. In 1992, he was convicted of killing three people in the Orlando region.
David Pittman63 would be the 12th person executed in Florida if the death penalty was performed as planned on September 17th. In 1990, he was found guilty of stabbing his wife’s sister and parents in a fatal way in their homes Polk County.
Florida executions are performed using a three indifferent fatal injection: according to the Ministry of State Correction, a soothing, paralitical and a drug that stops the heart.
