Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Florida has executed a 64-year-old man for the 1989 murder of a traveling salesman, the state's first execution and the nation's second of the year.
Ronald Heath was administered a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke on Tuesday evening and was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. EST, the state's Department of Corrections said in a statement.
Though Heath is Florida's first execution of 2026, his death follows a record-setting 2025 in which the Sunshine State put 19 death row inmates to death, accounting for 40% of the 47 executions carried out nationwide that year.
Heath was executed for the May 24, 1989, murder of Michael Sheridan in Gainesville, Fla.
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