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| Days before his execution, Michael Ray Lambrix speaks out. Photo via Miami Herald. |
Barring a last-minute reprieve, which almost certainly won’t happen, Florida will execute Michael Ray Lambrix at 6 p.m. tonight.
The 57-year-old, also known as Cary Michael Lambrix, was convicted of the 1983 killings of Clarence Moore Jr. and Aleisha Bryant.
Prosecutors say he killed them with tire-iron and by strangling after an evening of drinking at his trailer near LaBelle, about 30 miles from Fort Myers.
He met them at a bar, then invited them home for dinner.
This week, he asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution because Florida’s death penalty sentencing method was found to be unconstitutional, according to The Associated Press. The state has since required a unanimous jury vote in death cases.
The jury was not unanimous in either of Lambrix’s death sentence decisions, but Florida’s Supreme Court has said the new rules do not apply to cases as old as his.
Lambrix has been on the state’s Death Row for 33 years
— “Florida Death Row inmate gives rare interview before execution” via Steve Bousquet of the Tampa Bay Times
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