Thomas Gudinas was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison for the 1994 rape and murder of a woman in downtown Orlando, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal.

Thomas Gudinas was executed Tuesday in Florida, for the 1994 rape and murder of a woman, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal from his attorneys who argued he was too mentally ill to be put to death.

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar was executed Tuesday evening. Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, received a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke, following decades on death row for the 1994 killing of Michelle McGrath.