Glen Rogers was put to death at 6.16pm at the Florida State Prison in Raiford for the November 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs and other murders.

Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two children, was stabbed to death and her body was found in a hotel bathtub.

Rogers was also convicted of the murder in that same year of Sandra Gallagher, 33, in California and was a suspect in the murders of at least two other women, one in Mississippi and another in Louisiana.

There have now been 16 executions in the US this year; 12 by lethal injection; two by firing squad; and two using nitrogen gas.

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, on his first day in office, called for an expansion of its use “for the vilest crimes”.