A 53-year-old man convicted of killing a police officer after snatching his gun was executed by lethal injection in the southern US state of Florida.
Billy Kearse was pronounced dead at the state prison in Raiford, the Florida Department of Corrections said.
Kearse was sentenced to death for fatally shooting the officer Danny Parrish after wrestling away his gun during a 1991 traffic stop.
Kearse was the fifth person executed in the United States this year and the third in Florida. The other executions were carried out in Oklahoma and Texas.
There were 47 executions in the United States last year, the most since 2009, when 52 people were put to death.
Florida carried out the most executions in 2025, with 19, followed by Alabama, South Carolina and Texas, where there were five each.
Thirty-nine of last year's executions were carried out by lethal injection.
Three were by firing squad and five by nitrogen hypoxia, which involves pumping nitrogen gas into a face mask, causing the prisoner to suffocate.
The use of nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment has been denounced by United Nations experts as cruel and inhumane.
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states, while three others, California, Oregon and Pennsylvania, have moratoriums in place.
President Donald Trump is a proponent of capital punishment and has called for an expansion of its use "for the vilest crimes".
