A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his next-door neighbor is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening.

Norman Mearle Grim Jr., 65, is set to receive a lethal injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke. Grim was convicted of sexual battery and first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the 1998 killing of his neighbor Cynthia Campbell. Florida Department of Corrections

It would be Florida's 15th death sentence carried out in 2025, further extending the state record for total executions in a single year.

Campbell was reported missing in 1998, and her battered body was later found off the Pensacola Bay Bridge by a fisherman. Prosecutors said Campbell had suffered multiple blunt-force injuries to her face and head that were consistent with being struck

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