Florida schedules 20th execution of year as DeSantis signs death warrant for 1992 Keys murders

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Wednesday for Thomas Mitchell Overton, setting his execution for Nov. 18 at Florida State Prison in Starke.Florida death penalty executionDeSantis signed the warrant for Overton, 70, one day after the state executed William Reaves for killing an Indian River County sheriff’s deputy four decades ago. The execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 18 at Florida State Prison in Starke.Overton was arrested in 1997 for the August 1992 murders of Michael MacIvor, 30, and Missy MacIvor, 29, who was eight months pregnant. Overton had worked as a service-station clerk in Tavernier on Key Largo and knew the couple before breaking into their home.Court records show Michael MacIvor was struck in the head, kicked and strangled. Missy MacIvor was bound, raped and strangled. Overton DNA matched bedding samples in 1996 and 1998 tests, leading to his 1999 death sentence, life sentences for sexual battery and burglary, and 15 years for the death of an unbor