A man convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office and killing her was executed Tuesday evening.

Kayle Bates, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. It was the 10th death sentence carried out by the state of Florida in 2025, extending the state record for executions in a single year . Two more executions are planned within the next month.

Alex Lanfranconi, a spokesman for DeSantis, said Bates said "no" when asked if he had any final words just before the drugs began flowing.

Florida's executions are carried out using a three-drug lethal injection: a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the

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