USA - Florida. Marshall Lee Gore, 50, White, was executed.

Marshall Lee Gore, 50, White, was executed. Gore was convicted and sent to death row for the March 1988 murder of Robyn Novick. Authorities arrested Gore in 1988 after he kidnapped a woman. After raping the woman, he slit her throat, bashed her head in with a rock and left her to die in an isolated stretch. The woman lived, alerting police officers that Gore had made off with her car, with her 2-year-old son in the back seat. The child was later found alive. Officers looking for the boy stumbled across Novick's remains. She was last seen with Gore leaving a tavern. Suspicion soon fell on Gore for the disappearance of Susan Marie Roark, who had disappeared 2 months earlier. She was last seen in his company. In April 1988, Columbia County deputies found Roark's body, reduced to almost a skeleton, off a forest road. In all, Gore was suspected of at least 15 sexual assaults, the attempted murder of a girl in Broward and the 2 murders. Gore becomes the 5th inmate to be put to death this year in Florida, the 79th overall since the state resumed capital punishment in 1979, the 28th inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1348th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.