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   STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida   
   Panhandle insurance office and killing her received a lethal injection Tuesday   
   evening in the state's record 10th execution this year.   
      
   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. The execution extended Florida's record for   
   total executions in a single    
   year, and two more are planned in the state within the next month.   
      
   Bates was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and   
   attempted sexual battery in the June 14, 1982, killing of Janet White in Bay   
   County in the Florida Panhandle. The woman's husband, Randy White, was one of   
   the witnesses to Tuesday'   
   s execution.   
      
   At the scheduled 6 p.m. execution time, the curtain to the death chamber   
   promptly went up. Bates was already strapped to a gurney with his left arm   
   extended and the IV line for the drugs already in place. When asked if he   
   wished to make a last statement,    
   Bates replied ‘no.’   
      
   The execution then began at 6:01 pm. Bates began breathing more rapidly about   
   a minute after the drugs began flowing, and then he stopped after about   
   another minute. At 6:05 p.m., the warden touched Bates' face, shook his   
   shoulders and shouted his name    
   with no response. Several minutes later, he was declared dead.   
      
   At a briefing following the execution, Randy White thanked DeSantis for   
   signing the death warrant and also thanked members of law enforcement and   
   prosecutors for working on his wife’s case.   
      
   ″I am truly humbled by the outpouring of love and support from so many who   
   didn’t know either one of us. I thank you from my heart. It means more than   
   you will ever know," he said.   
      
   Since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, the highest   
   previous annual total of Florida executions was eight in 2014. Florida has   
   executed more people than any other state this year, while Texas and South   
   Carolina are tied for    
   second place with four each.   
      
   With Tuesday’s execution, a total of 29 men have died by court-ordered   
   execution so far this year in the U.S., and at least nine other people were   
   scheduled to be put to death in seven states during the remainder of 2025.   
      
   According to court documents, Bates abducted Janet White from the insurance   
   office where she worked, took her into some woods behind the building,   
   attempted to rape her, fatally stabbed her and tore a diamond ring from one of   
   her fingers.   
      
   Attorneys for Bates had filed appeals with the Florida Supreme Court and the   
   U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a federal lawsuit claiming DeSantis’ process   
   for signing death warrants was discriminatory. The lawsuit was recently   
   dismissed by a judge who    
   found problems with its statistical analysis.   
      
   The Florida Supreme Court recently denied Bates' pending claims, including   
   arguments that evidence of organic brain damage had been inadequately   
   considered during his second penalty phase. The court ruled Bates already had   
   three decades to raise these    
   claims. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Bates' last appeal Tuesday.   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/florida-man-convicted-killin   
   -woman-033550075.html   
      
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