Florida inmate's execution for 'savage' killings to mark 10-year high in US. What to know.

 

The U.S. is set to reach a 10-year The U.S. is set to reach a 10-year high for executions next week, with Florida expected to administer a lethal injection to Michael Bernard Bell for the revenge killing of two people in 1993.

Bell is set to be executed on Tuesday, July 15, for murdering 23-year-old Jimmy West and 18-year-old Tamecka Smith outside a Jacksonville bar on Dec. 9, 1993, when he went on a rampage with an AK-47.