Florida man convicted raping and killing his neighbor in 1998 is ready to be executed

STARKE, Fla. – A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his next-door neighbor is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night.

Norman Mearle Grim Jr., 65, is ready to obtain a deadly injection beginning at 6 p.m. at Florida State Jail close to Starke. Grim was convicted of sexual battery and first-degree homicide and sentenced to loss of life for the 1998 killing of his neighbor Cynthia Campbell.

It might be Florida’s fifteenth loss of life sentence carried out in 2025, additional extending the state file for whole executions in a single 12 months.

The backstory:

Campbell was reported lacking in 1998, and her battered physique was later discovered off the Pensacola Bay Bridge by a fisherman. Prosecutors mentioned Campbell had suffered a number of blunt-force accidents to her face and head that have been in line with being struck by a hammer, as properly has 11 stab wounds within the chest. An post-mortem revealed seven of the stab wounds penetrated her coronary heart. Bodily proof together with DNA tied Grim to her killing and he was convicted in December 2000 and sentenced to loss of life.

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After a loss of life warrant is signed and an execution date is ready, inmates have a final probability to enchantment to the Florida Supreme Courtroom and the U.S. Supreme Courtroom. However Grim waived any appeals throughout a listening to earlier this month.

By the numbers:

A complete of 40 males have died by court-ordered execution thus far this 12 months within the U.S., and no less than 18 different persons are scheduled to be put to loss of life through the the rest of 2025 and subsequent 12 months.

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Because the U.S. Supreme Courtroom restored the loss of life penalty in 1976, the very best earlier annual whole of Florida executions was eight in 2014. Florida has executed extra individuals than some other state this 12 months, adopted by Texas and Alabama with 5 every. Two extra executions are deliberate for subsequent month in Florida below loss of life warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Bryan Fredrick Jennings, 66, is scheduled for Florida’s sixteenth execution on Nov. 13. He was convicted of raping and killing a 6-year-old woman in 1979 after getting into by a window and abducting her from her central Florida residence.

Richard Barry Randolph, 63, is ready for Florida’s seventeenth execution on Nov. 20. He was convicted of the 1988 rape and deadly beating of his former supervisor at a Florida comfort retailer.

Florida’s deadly injections are carried out with a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the guts, in keeping with the state Division of Corrections.