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Florida executes 55-year-old man convicted in 1992 murder of Miami-Dade woman

Authorities say 55-year-old Jose Antonio Jimenez was pronounced dead at 9:48 p.m. Thursday after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of fatally beating and stabbing a South Florida woman 26 years ago during a burglary has been executed.

Authorities say 55-year-old Jose Antonio Jimenez was pronounced dead at 9:48 p.m. Thursday after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke.

Jimenez was convicted of the October 1992 killing of 63-year-old Phyllis Minas in her North Miami apartment.

Authorities say Jimenez was burglarizing Minas' apartment when she came home and surprised him. Investigators said Minas, a longtime employee of the Miami-Dade Court Clerk's office, was stabbed eight times.

Authorities say Jimenez is the 28th inmate executed in Florida since Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011. That's the most of any Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

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