A man convicted of fatally shooting two people outside a Florida bar in 1993 as part of an attempted revenge killing has been executed.

Michael Bernard Bell, 54, received a lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 1993 double murder of Jimmy West and Tamecka Smith.

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The United States is likely to reach a 10-year high for capital punishment before August arrives with Florida set to execute death row inmate Michael Bernard Bell by lethal injection at 6 p.m. EDT Tue

Michael Bell would be the eighth person put to death in Florida this year, with Edward Zakrzewski scheduled to be the ninth later this month. The state executed six people in 2023 but only one last year.