TALLAHASSEE — In what could be Florida’s record 19th execution this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1987 murders of two people in a home in Okaloosa County.

Frank Walls, 58, is scheduled to be executed Dec. 18 in the murders of Edward Alger and Ann Peterson. The warrant came as the state prepares to execute Richard Barry Randolph on Thursday and is slated to execute Mark Allen Geralds on Dec. 9.

A 1992 sentencing document posted Tuesday on the Florida Supreme Court website with the death warrant said Walls went to the home of Alger and Peterson in the early morning hours of July 22, 1987, and woke them.

The document said Walls forced Peterson to bind Alger’s wrists and ankles. After a struggle, the document said, Walls slashed

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