After declining to fight the execution in court, Norman Grim was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison for the 1998 sexual assault and murder of a woman in Santa Rosa County.
Grim, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m., becoming the 15th inmate executed in Florida this year — a modern-era record.
After death warrants are signed, attorneys for inmates usually file a flurry of legal arguments in state and federal courts to try to halt the executions. But during an Oct. 1 hearing in Santa Rosa County, Grim waived pursuing appeals…