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Florida man executed for the 1998 rape and murder of his neighbor

Norman Grim was executed for the 1998 rape and murder of Cynthia Campbell, marking Florida's 15th execution in 2025, nearly doubling its previous annual record.

  • A Florida man, Norman Mearle Grim Jr., was executed on Tuesday for the 1998 rape and murder of his neighbor, Cynthia Campbell.
  • Grim, 65, was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing Campbell, whose battered body was found by a fisherman with blunt force trauma and stab wounds.
  • This was Florida's 15th execution in 2025, the highest annual number since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
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Florida man executed for the 1998 rape and murder of his neighbor

A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor decades ago was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 15th execution in Florida this year.

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Miami (USA), 28 Oct (EFE).- Florida raised its death penalty record to 15 this Tuesday in one year by executing at 18.14 local time (22.14 GMT) Norman Mearle Grim Jr., a man convicted of sexual assault and murder of his neighbor, bringing to 41 people executed in the U.S. so far this year. To date, authorities have executed 41 prisoners in 11 states other than the U.S. in 2025, exceeding the total of 35 in 2014, the last time there was such a hi…

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Pensacola News Journal broke the news in Pensacola, United States on Monday, October 27, 2025.
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