Crime · North Miami Beach, FL
DeSantis Schedules Execution of North Miami Beach Cop Killer for Dec. 1
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Friday, Oct. 30, for inmate Ricardo Gonzalez, 56, who killed North Miami Beach Police Officer Steven Bauer during a Jan. 3, 1992, robbery at Kislak National Bank. Gonzalez is set to die by lethal injection Dec. 1 at Florida State Prison and would be the 21st inmate executed by Florida this year. He was convicted of first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, armed robbery, aggravated assault, grand theft, and burglary, and sentenced to death in September 1998. Two codefendants remain on Florida's death row.