Execution date set for Florida man convicted of kidnapping woman, killing her

A man on death row in Florida is scheduled to be executed next month for his conviction of abducting a woman from an insurance office and killing her Kayle Bates is set to be put to death on Aug in the th execution scheduled for this year in Florida Bates was convicted of first-degree murder kidnapping armed robbery and attempted sexual battery in connection with the June death of -year-old Janet White in Bay County FLORIDA MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING PEOPLE OUTSIDE A BAR SET TO BE PUT TO DEATHHe was accused of abducting White from the State Farm insurance office where she worked before taking her into the woods behind the building at which point he attempted to rape her stabbed her to death and tore a diamond ring from one of her fingers according to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's summary of the incident According to court records Bates was a delivery man for a Tallahassee paper company and had made at least one earlier delivery stop at the insurance office He had broken into the insurance office while White was on her lunch break and waited for her to return 'MORBIDLY OBESE' FLORIDA MAN WHO ADMITTED TO KILLING MIAMI HERALD EMPLOYEE EXECUTED TUESDAYLast year the Florida Supreme Court rejected an appeal regarding a juror from his initial trial The U S Supreme Court also denied a petition on June Bates' attorney James Driscoll Jr reported he would be filing further appeals in the event We believe his execution would violate the U S constitution he described The Associated Press Florida Gov Ron DeSantis signed Bates' death warrant on Friday just three days after the state executed Michael Bell for shooting and killing two people outside a bar in as part of an attempted revenge killing Bell was the eighth person executed in Florida this year and a ninth is scheduled for later this month The state put six people to death in but only one execution happened last year Bell was the th person to be executed in the U S so far this year in the U S exceeding the executions carried out last year This is the highest number of executions since when people across the country were put to death The Associated Press contributed to this review