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Florida executed Michael King by lethal injection March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke, for the 2008 Sarasota County ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the rape and murder of a young mother who frantically called 911 on her attacker’s cellphone while she was tied up in his car.

Barring a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court or Gov. Ron DeSantis, a man convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering a North Port woman in 2008 will be put to death on Tuesday afternoon, March 17.