Jesse Guardado, who murdered a Panhandle woman in 2004 after she helped him reset his life following his release from jail, was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Thursday.
Guardado, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m., according to the Department of Corrections.
He was the 19th inmate put to death this year by the state, equal to the number of executions in 2025, which was the most in a single year for Florida since the 1976, when U.S. Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty…