On June 24, death row inmate Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, ending a long legal saga that began with his 1995 conviction for the 1994 rape and murder of 27‑year‑old Michelle McGrath near an Orlando bar.

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.