TALLAHASSEE — Continuing a pace of two executions a month, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a death warrant for a man convicted in the 1998 sexual assault and murder of a Northwest Florida attorney who was his neighbor.

Norman Grim, 65, is scheduled to be executed Oct. 28 and could be a modern-era record 15th inmate executed this year in Florida. The state has executed 12 inmates, with Victor Tony Jones scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at Florida State Prison and Samuel Smithers slated for execution Oct. 14.

Two executions were carried out in May, two in June, two in July, two in August, and Jones would be the second inmate put to death in September. David Pittman was executed Sept. 17 in the 1990 murders of three members of his estranged wife’s family in Polk County.

Grim was con

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