US EditionFlorida sets execution date for man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a robbery
Ronald Palmer Heath faces lethal injection for the 1989 murder and robbery of Michael Sheridan, marking Florida's first execution of 2026 under Gov. Ron DeSantis' signed death warrant.
- Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Feb. 10 for the 1989 murder of a traveling salesman.
- Heath and his brother Kenneth plotted to rob and kill Michael Sheridan after meeting him at a bar in Gainesville, Florida.
- After the murder, the brothers used Sheridan's credit cards to make purchases at a mall before Ronald Heath's arrest weeks later.
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Florida sets execution date for man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a robbery
A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a robbery is set to become Florida’s first execution of 2026. A death warrant was signed Friday by Republican Gov.
DeSantis sets date for Florida’s first execution of 2026
TALLAHASSEE — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a robbery is set to become Florida’s first execution of 2026 under a death warrant signed Friday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed off on a record 19 executions last year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Feb. 10 at Florida State Prison. DeSantis oversaw more executions in a single year in 2025 than any other Florida governor since the …
Governor DeSantis signs death warrant for Ronald Palmer Heath, who murdered a man he met at the Purple Porpoise in 1989
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Ronald Palmer Heath, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for killing Michael Sheridan, a man he met at the Purple Porpoise in Gainesville in 1989. The post Governor DeSantis signs death warrant for Ronald Palmer Heath, who murdered a man he met at the Purple Porpoise in 1989 appeared first on Alachua Chronicle.
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