Florida set to execute man convicted of raping and killing a woman outside of a bar

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar is scheduled to be executed. Barring a reprieve, 51-year-old Thomas Lee Gudinas is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was convicted in the killing of Michelle McGrath, who was last seen at a bar called Barbarella’s shortly before 3 a.m. on May 24, 1994. Her body was found in an alley next to a nearby school hours later. A school employee who found McGrath’s body later identified Gudinas as a man who was fleeing the area shortly before the body was discovered.