A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing of his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter in Coral Springs nearly 26 years ago was executed Thursday evening.

Last year, Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis executed more death row inmates than any other state. Florida is on a similar pace this year.

A Florida man scheduled to die by lethal injection this evening has filed an emergency motion to halt his execution, citing a developing situation in Tennessee where a governor issued a one-year reprieve after an execution team spent an hour failing to establish required IV lines.

The botched insertion caused Carruthers to be in pain as he lost “lots of blood,” one of his public defenders said.