Continuing to ramp up the pace of executions in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in the 1994 rape and murder of a woman in downtown Orlando.

The warrant was signed for Thomas Gudinas, 51, who is scheduled to be executed June 24 and could be the seventh inmate put to death by lethal injection this year. Five men have been executed, and inmate Anthony Wainwright is scheduled to die June 10.

Gudinas was convicted in the May 1994 murder of Michelle McGrath, who had been out for a night of entertainment in downtown Orlando. McGrath was last seen alive about 2:45 a.m. in the courtyard of a nightclub and was believed to have been attacked as she went to her car in a parking lot, according to a 1995 sentencing order in the case.

McGrath’s body was

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