Starke, Fla. — Florida executed a man for the 1993 rape and murder of a Florida college student Thursday.
Authorities say Eric Scott Branch, 47, screamed Murders, murders repeatedly as he was being put to death Thursday. Branch was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. Thursday evening after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke.
He was convicted in the 1993 rape and fatal beating of 21-year-old college student Susan Morris, whose body was found buried in a shallow grave. Morris was a University of West Florida student at the time of her death.
Branch also was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Indiana, and another sexual assault in Panama City.
