TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A person convicted of raping and killing a girl close to a central Florida bar has been scheduled for execution in Florida below a loss of life warrant signed Friday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the seventh this 12 months.
Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, is about to die by deadly injection June 24 at Florida State Jail close to town of Starke.
Gudinas was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to loss of life for the homicide of Michelle McGrath.
McGrath was final seen at a bar known as Barbarella’s round closing time in Could 1994. Her physique was present in an alley subsequent to a close-by college the subsequent morning with proof of significant trauma and sexual assault.
Gudinas had been on the similar bar with buddies the evening earlier than, however all of them later testified that that they had left with out him. A college worker who discovered McGrath’s physique later recognized Gudinas as a person who was fleeing the world shortly earlier than the physique was found. One other girl additionally recognized Gudinas as the one who chased her to her automotive the earlier evening and threatened to assault her.
5 different executions have taken place in Florida this 12 months, with a sixth scheduled for June 10, all by deadly injection.
