Florida is set to execute a man today for the kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old college student who was on a campus trip with his big sister in ALA National Forest in north central Florida if all goes well the state plans with a lethal injection for 57-year-old Lauren Cole he would become the first inmate executed in Florida this year and a 13th in the nation po was convicted of first gr murder on February 18th 1994 for the killing of Florida State University freshman John Edwards as well as sexual assault for raping Edward's 21-year-old sister at the time if Cole is put to death it would Mark the seventh time Florida has executed a man since August 8th 2019 the most recent was October when the state put the death Michael Zach for a woman in 1996 slaying