Florida will execute a man Thursday night convicted of raping and killing a college student in 1993 so he could steal her car.
Eric Scott Branch, 47, will be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison.
Branch was convicted of the rape and murder of University of West Florida student Susan Morris, 21, whose naked body was found buried in a shallow grave near a nature trail.
Evidence in the case shows that Branch approached Morris after she left a night class on Jan. 11, 1993, so he could steal her red Toyota and return to his home state of Indiana. He was arrested while traveling there.
In denying one of Branch's several appeals, the Florida Supreme Court noted that the crime was particularly brutal.