Florida executes man with drug not previously used in lethal injections

A 53-year-old man convicted of killing two men in 1987 was executed by Florida on Thursday evening by a lethal injection that included a drug never before used in a U.S. execution, state officials said.

Mark James Asay was the first white man to be put to death in Florida for killing a black man since the state reinstituted the death penalty in 1979.

(Reporting by Bernie Woodall; Editing by Peter Cooney and Dan Grebler)