Video above: Remembering Renee White, sufferer of Kayle Bates.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man’s execution has lastly been set after spending over 40 years on dying row.
Kayle Barrington Bates was convicted of the 1982 homicide of Renee White of Lynn Haven. She was 23 years previous on the time.
According to Nexstar sister station WMBB, Bates attacked White whereas she was at work at a neighborhood insurance coverage workplace. Authorities stated Bates, a paper deliveryman on the time, had focused the younger girl after making a supply to the workplace as soon as earlier than.
White tried to combat again, however Bates stabbed her twice with a searching knife and dragged her physique right into a wooded space behind the insurance coverage workplace.
In 1983, a jury discovered Bates responsible of first-degree homicide, and a decide sentenced him to dying.
On July 18, 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Bates’ dying warrant. The assassin’s execution is now scheduled for Aug. 19, 2025, at 6 p.m.