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Florida put to death a convicted murderer in the state’s first execution since September’s botched attempt involving Christa Pike in Tennessee, on Tuesday.

Officials said James Robertson, 63, was pronounced dead after he received a three-shot series of lethal injections at a Florida state prison in Raiford.

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© Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

The execution of James Robertson, who said he deliberately killed another inmate to get on death row, occurred without complications, state officials said.

© Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times, via Reuters