Florida set to execute man convicted of raping and killing a woman outside of a bar
Stanke, Fla. (AP) – Central Florida Bar is planned to rape a woman and to kill a woman. will be executed Tuesday.
51 -year -old Thomas Lee Gudinas is planned to receive a deadly injection in the Florida state prison near Starke, and the last day is a Reprieve. In May 1994, he was sentenced to the murder of Michelle McGrath.
Gudinas would be the seventh person kill This year in Florida eighth Planned next month. The state also executed six people in 2023, but only realized an executive last year.
A total of 23 men were executed in the USA this year, the planned executions are in 2025 Most executives Since 2015.
Florida executes more people than other states this year, while Texas and South Carolina ranks second with four. Alabama executed three people, Oklahoma killed two, and Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana and Tennessee have one. Mississippi Since 2022, he will participate in other states on Wednesday with his first execution.
McGrath was last seen on May 24, 1994 in a bar called Barbarella’s before 3 o’clock. A few hours later, his body was found with serious trauma and evidence of sexual assault on a street next to a nearby school.
Gudinas was on the same bar the night before, but then they said they left without him. A school worker who found McGrath’s body was later described Gudinas as a man who escaped from the region in a short time. Another woman described the Gudinas as a person who chased her car and threatened to attack her.
Gudinas was sentenced and sentenced to death in 1995.
Gudinas lawyers objected to the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court.
Lawyers claim that evidence of “lifelong mental illnesses ında in their state exempted Gudinas to death. The Florida Supreme Court rejected the appeal last week and decided that the case -law, which protects people with disabilities from the executions intellectual, did not apply to individuals with other mental illness or brain damage.
Meanwhile, a federal filing argues that the discretion of the Florida Governor to sign the death warrants of the Governor of Florida has violated the constitutional rights of the prisoners in order of death in order of death, and that he lived and who died. The US Supreme Court has not yet announced its decision.
