Ron DeSantis has set an execution date for a 65-year-old man who sexually battered and killed his next-door neighbor in 1998. Two other Florida executions are also scheduled for this fall. The highest previous annual total of recent Florida executions is eight in 2014, since the death penalty was restored in 1976 by the U.S. Supreme Court. A total of 33 people have been executed in the U.S. this year, exceeding the 25 executions carried out last year. Appeals will likely be filed in the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.