Following a record year for executions in Florida, the state is preparing to carry out its first execution of 2026. The case has renewed debate over capital punishment as additional executions are already scheduled in the coming weeks. The backstory: Ronald Heath, 64, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the 1989 murder of Michael Sheridan in Alachua County. Court records say Sheridan was shot, stabbed and robbed in a wooded area south of Gainesville. Heath’s execution would be the first carr