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(Starke, FL) - Florida leads the nation in executions and is set to conduct another one Tuesday night.
51-year-old Thomas Lee Gudinas is scheduled get the lethal injection for the rape and murder of a Central Florida woman in 1994.
Barring any last-minute reprieve, Gudinas will be the seventh person put to death in Florida this year. An eighth execution is scheduled for next month.
The victim, Michelle McGrath, was last seen at an Orlando bar called Barbarella’s shortly before closing.
Her body showed signs of serious trauma and sexual assault after it was found in an alley several hours later.
Gudinas was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1995.