The Florida governor ordered the execution with lethal injection of a murderer and a serial rapist

The serial killer Robert Joseph Longwho confessed killed eight women and raped about fortywill be executed with lethal injection on May 23rd FloridaThe state governor's office Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday.

This is the first execution signed by the Republican DeSantis, who took office in January.

Long, 65 years old He had been sentenced to death for the murder of Michelle Simms in May 1984, which he had raped and let die dying. on a highway after taking her in her car on a Tampa boulevard on the east coast of Florida.

County authorities Hillsboroughon the east coast of Florida, they found Simms' naked body, bloody face, hands and body bound, and a sore neck and chin.

Long confessed to killing Simms after his arrest for the abduction and badual badault of Lisa McVey in November 1984.

In addition to the confession of the murder of Simms, Long admitted to have killed seven other women in the neighboring counties of Hillsborough and Pasco.

He also claimed to have raped about forty women in three different states.

Long, detained at the Correctional Institution Union, in Raiford, North Florida, finally He pled guilty to eight homicides and was sentenced to death for the murder of Simms.

Since 1976, 97 inmates have been executed in Florida, according to the Florida Corrections Department, the last of them, José Antonio Jiménez, on December 13, 2018, for the murder of a woman in 1992.

Jiménez was convicted of the murder of Phyllis Minas in 1992 in North Miami and, two years later, in prison, for the murder and theft of another woman, Marie Debas, in 1990 in Miami Beach.

In October 2018, 2,721 prisoners were awaiting execution in the United States, 354 in Florida, according to the information center on the death penalty.