A man convicted of raping a woman and murdering her brother while the siblings were on a camping trip is to be executed in the US state of Florida on Thursday.
Loran Cole, 57, is to be put to death by lethal injection at 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, the Florida Department of Corrections said.
Cole was sentenced to death in December 1995 for the February 1994 murder of an 18-year-old Florida State University student, who was on a camping trip with his sister in the Ocala National Forest.
Cole was also convicted of sexually assaulting the murder victim’s elder sister, who was tied to a tree but managed to escape the next day.
An accomplice, William Paul, was sentenced to life in prison.
Cole has appealed to the Supreme Court to delay his execution on the grounds he has Parkinson’s disease and the lethal injection “will very likely cause him needless pain…
Read More