Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Florida on Tuesday executed a 72-year-old death row inmate for the 1996 murders of two women, as the state continues its record pace of executions.
Samuel Smithers was put to death by lethal injection, and pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday at Florida State Prison in Raiford, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Corrections.
Smithers is the 14th death-row inmate executed in Florida this year, a new record. The Sunshine State broke its previous high of eight, set in 2014, in August and has two more executions scheduled for the year.
He is also the oldest person to be executed by Florida in the modern era, which began with the resumption of executions in 1976.
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