TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman during home invasion robbery is scheduled to be put to death in December under a death warrant signed Friday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is setting a record pace for executions.

Mark Allen Geralds, 58, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Dec. 9 at Florida State Prison. Geralds would be the 18th 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 Nov. 13 execution of Bryan Fredrick Jennings. Another convicted killer, Richard Barry Randolph, is set to die Nov. 20.

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