TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A man convicted of raping and fatally beating his former manager at a Florida convenience store is scheduled to be put to death in November under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is setting a record pace for executions.

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 20 at Florida State Prison. Randolph would be the 17th person set for execution in Florida in 2025, with DeSantis overseeing more executions in a single year than any other Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The previous record was set in 2014 with eight executions.

DeSantis signed the death warrant a week before the Oct. 28 scheduled execution of Norman Mearle Grim Jr. Another convicted killer, Bryan Fredrick Jennin

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