A 77-year-old Florida man convicted of the hammer beating death of a woman is set to become the 16th person executed this year in the nation’s busiest death chamber.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his 18th death warrant of the year Friday. William Reaves, convicted of the 1986 killing of an Indian River County Sheriff’s deputy, is set to be executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Stark on Oct. 20, as reported by our news partners at the News Service of Florida.