MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A 62-year-old man known as the “Cross-Country Killer” is set to be executed by lethal injection in the southern US state of Florida on Thursday.

Glen Rogers is to be put to death at 6:00 pm  at the Florida State Prison in Raiford for the November 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs.

Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two children, was stabbed to death and her body was found in a hotel bathtub.

Rogers was also convicted of the murder that same year of Sandra Gallagher, 33, in California and was a suspect in the murders of at least two other women, one in Mississippi and another Louisiana.

There have been 15 executions in the United States this year: 11 by lethal injection; two by firing squad; and two using nitrogen gas.

The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states, while three others — California, Oregon and Pennsylvania — have moratoriums in place.

President Donald Trump is a proponent of capital punishment and, on his first day in office, called for an expansion of its use “for the vilest crimes.”