TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant Monday for an inmate convicted of the 1994 slaying of a Florida State University student who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister.

Loran Cole, 57, is scheduled to be executed Aug. 29 at Florida State Prison, according to documents posted Monday night on the Florida Supreme Court’s website. Cole would be the first inmate executed in Florida since October when Michael Duane Zack was put to death by lethal injection for a 1996 murder in Escambia County.

Cole was sentenced to death in the February 1994 slaying of John Edwards, who went to the Ocala National Forest to camp with his sister, a student at Eckerd College, court records from earlier Superior Court appeals show.

Cole and another man, William Paul, joined the brother and sister at their campsite. After they decided to go to a pond, Cole tackled Edwards’ sister to the ground and eventually handcuffed her, the documents said. The men subdued John Edwards and Cole went through the victims’ pockets and took their belongings.

Paul took the sister up on a trail and John Edwards died of a cut throat and blow to the head that fractured his skull, according to court records. Edward’s sister was sexually assaulted and tied to two trees the next morning before freeing herself. (In most cases, The News Service of Florida does not identify sexual assault victims by name.)

Cole and Paul were arrested in Ocala, and Cole was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, robbery and sexual assault, court records and the Florida Department of Corrections show. Paul, now 51, pleaded no contest to murder, kidnapping and robbery and was sentenced to life in prison. He is an inmate at the Cross City Correctional Institution.