Serial Killer Facing Execution:  A Florida sex offender who admitted to raping about 40 women and murdering eight will be put to death tonight baring a last minute stay.  Alex Johnson of NBC News reports that Bobby Joe Long was arrested after a 17-year-old girl persuaded Long to release her after he kidnapped and raped her in 1984.  He was sentenced to death for the May 1984 rape and murder of 22-year-old Michelle Simms who body was found by the side of the road in a Tampa suburb.  As reported by the Associated Press, all of Long's murder victims were killed in the Tampa Bay area by strangulation, beating, or having their throats slit.  Interesting that NBC News reports that Long killed eight women and the Associated Press reports him killing ten.

Update:  Dead at 6:55 PM last night.