The state of Florida executed 64-year-old Ronald Heath at 6:12 p.m. on Tuesday for the 1989 murder of a traveling salesman, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
Heath met his victim, Michael Sheridan, at what is now MacDinton’s Irish Pub, a popular bar near UF’s main campus in Gainesville. At the time, the location operated as the Purple Porpoise Lounge, which closed in 2002.
The murder occurred just a few months after Ronald was released for a murder he committed at age 16. Ronald was convicted of first-degree murder, armed robbery and forgery and sentenced to death in 1990…