A suspected serial killer once scrutinized for a possible link to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the nation in the 1990s was executed Thursday in Florida for the murder of a woman found dead in a Tampa motel room.

Glen Rogers, a suspected serial killer, was executed in Florida for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs. He received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. Rogers was also sentenced to death in California for another murder that occurred weeks before Cribbs' death.

A notorious serial killer who once claimed to have 70 victims — and was even eyed in the brutal murders of OJ Simpson’s wife and her friend — is set to be executed in Florida on Thursday. So-called “Casanova Killer” Glen Rogers,