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 ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced ...

FILE -The entrance to Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla. is shown Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson) (Curt Anderson, Copyright 2025 The Associated ...

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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year.

Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news ...

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