STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of the 1994 machete killings of his wife and their two children was put to death Thursday, becoming the ninth person executed in Florida this year and setting a state record for a single-year total since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty decades ago.

Edward Zakrzewski was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, officials said. After the death penalty's restoration in 1976, Florida carried out a one-year high of eight executions in 2014, a total matched this year with a mid-July execution and now exceeded.

Zakrzewski was lying on a gurney and covered with a white sheet when the curtain in the death chamber went up about 6 p.m.

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