Arguing that convicted killer Kayle Bates has “exhaustively litigated and relitigated his judgment and death sentence” for the past 43 years, the state Attorney General’s Office on Monday said the Florida Supreme Court should reject efforts to halt Bates’ scheduled Aug. 19 execution.

The state filed a series of documents after Bates’ lawyers last week asked the Supreme Court to block the execution. Bates, 67, was sent to Death Row for the 1982 stabbing death of Janet White, who was abducted from the State Farm insurance office in Bay County where she worked.

One of the documents Monday said the Supreme Court should “allow true finality in this case.”

“Bates forfeited his right to live when he brutally stabbed a young woman to death after kidnapping, robbing and attempting to sexually

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