By CURT ANDERSON

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of the 1994 machete killings of his wife and two children was set to be put to death Thursday evening in what would be a record ninth execution in Florida this year and its highest single-year total since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976.

Edward Zakrzewski, 60, was scheduled to receive a three-drug lethal injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke after his last appeal was rejected a day earlier by the nation’s highest court. Florida carried out eight executions in 2014, a one-year high matched by its latest execution in mid-July.

Zakrzewski awoke at 5:15 a.m. Thursday and had a meal that included fried pork chops, potatoes, root beer and ice cream, said state Department of Corrections spokesm

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