STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year.
Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. Heath was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and other charges in the 1989…