Overview
- Randolph, 63, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. after a three‑drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, with officials reporting no complications and no final statement.
- He was convicted in 1989 of first‑degree murder, sexual battery, armed robbery and grand theft for the 1988 attack on convenience store manager Minnie Ruth McCollum, who died six days after the assault.
- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal and denied a stay on Thursday, following the Florida Supreme Court’s denial of his late filings.
- Defense attorneys argued his lupus would cause severe pain under the injection protocol, but courts deemed the method challenge untimely and declined to change the procedure.
- The execution was Florida’s 17th in 2025 and the 44th nationwide this year, with two more executions in Florida scheduled for December.