10-05-2017, 01:39 PM
Florida
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Florida is scheduled to execute a man today who was convicted of murdering two people decades ago after a long night of drinking.
Barring a successful last-ditch appeal filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, Michael Lambrix is scheduled to die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison at 6 p.m.
He would be the second inmate to be put to death by the state since it restarted executions in August.
Before then, the state had stopped all executions for months after a Supreme Court ruling that found Florida's method of sentencing people to death was unconstitutional. In response, the state Legislature passed a new law requiring death sentences to have a unanimous jury vote.
Lambrix's attorney, William Hennis, is arguing to the nation's high court that because his client's jury recommendations for death were not unanimous -- the juries in his two trials voted 8-4 and 10-2 for death -- they should be thrown out. The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Lambrix's case is too old to qualify for relief from the new sentencing system.
Lambrix was convicted of killing Clarence Moore and Aleisha Bryant after a long night of partying in a small central Florida town, Labelle, about 30 miles northeast of Fort Myers.
Lambrix has claimed in previous appeals that it was Moore who killed Bryant, and that he killed Moore only in self-defense.
"It won't be an execution," Lambrix told reporters in an interview at the prison Tuesday, according to the Tampa Bay Times. "It's going to be an act of cold-blooded murder."
Lambrix told the Miami Herald his final meal will be a Thanksgiving-style turkey dinner, which is what his mother promised to cook if he was exonerated. The paper reporters he went on a hunger strike last month to protest his death sentence but it ended after 12 days.
"We're the only Western country in the entire world that kills its citizens under the pretense of the administration of justice," Lambrix told reporters.
More about the crime and legal issues associated with the execution: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/condemned-k...ed-murder/
Florida is scheduled to execute a man today who was convicted of murdering two people decades ago after a long night of drinking.
Barring a successful last-ditch appeal filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, Michael Lambrix is scheduled to die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison at 6 p.m.
He would be the second inmate to be put to death by the state since it restarted executions in August.
Before then, the state had stopped all executions for months after a Supreme Court ruling that found Florida's method of sentencing people to death was unconstitutional. In response, the state Legislature passed a new law requiring death sentences to have a unanimous jury vote.
Lambrix's attorney, William Hennis, is arguing to the nation's high court that because his client's jury recommendations for death were not unanimous -- the juries in his two trials voted 8-4 and 10-2 for death -- they should be thrown out. The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Lambrix's case is too old to qualify for relief from the new sentencing system.
Lambrix was convicted of killing Clarence Moore and Aleisha Bryant after a long night of partying in a small central Florida town, Labelle, about 30 miles northeast of Fort Myers.
Lambrix has claimed in previous appeals that it was Moore who killed Bryant, and that he killed Moore only in self-defense.
"It won't be an execution," Lambrix told reporters in an interview at the prison Tuesday, according to the Tampa Bay Times. "It's going to be an act of cold-blooded murder."
Lambrix told the Miami Herald his final meal will be a Thanksgiving-style turkey dinner, which is what his mother promised to cook if he was exonerated. The paper reporters he went on a hunger strike last month to protest his death sentence but it ended after 12 days.
"We're the only Western country in the entire world that kills its citizens under the pretense of the administration of justice," Lambrix told reporters.
More about the crime and legal issues associated with the execution: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/condemned-k...ed-murder/