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    Florida man asks US Supreme Court to halt planned execution

    STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida inmate convicted of killing two people decades ago has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt Thursday's scheduled execution.

    Attorneys for Michael Lambrix filed the appeal Tuesday. Lambrix was convicted of killing Clarence Moore and Aleisha Bryant. Prosecutors said he killed the pair in 1983 outside his trailer near LaBelle, northeast of Fort Myers, after an evening of drinking.

    Lambrix argued that the execution, scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, should be halted after Florida's death penalty sentencing method was found to be unconstitutional. 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.

    http://www.expressnews.com/news/us/a...d-12250331.php
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    Death Row Inmate Ends Hunger Strike with Thanksgiving Dinner for Last Meal

    By Tamar Lapin
    New York Post

    A death row inmate scheduled to be executed Thursday night ordered a Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings for his last meal, after spending 12 days on a hunger strike to protest his conviction.

    Michael Lambrix, 57, will be put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford at 6 p.m for the 1983 double murder of Aleisha Bryant and Clarence Moore, which he contends was committed in self-defense.

    “It won’t be an execution,” he said. “It’s going to be an act of cold-blooded murder.”

    The convicted killer has been on death row since 1984, and last month went on a hunger strike to protest his death sentence and a court system that he says ignored evidence in his case.

    Lambrix said he killed Moore in self-defense after Moore killed Bryant during a night of drinking. A friend who helped him bury both victims the night of the murder, Frances Smith, gave much of the damning testimony leading to his conviction.

    His first trial ended in a hung jury and he was convicted in a retrial. The jury recommendation of the death penalty in both trials was not unanimous, which is now unconstitutional. Lambrix is seeking a stay of execution from the US Supreme Court on the grounds that his death sentence should also be considered unconstitutional.

    “We’re the only Western country in the entire world that kills its citizens under the pretense of the administration of justice,” he said.

    On the eve of his execution, he expressed regret for not accepting a deal of 24 years if he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, which would have gotten him out of prison over a decade ago.

    The Army veteran has been visited by 43 relatives and friends, including his parents, three children, close friends and pen pals. He ordered a Thanksgiving dinner for his last meal, which is what his mother promised to cook if he was exonerated.

    Catholic bishops in Florida have called on Gov. Rick Scott to stop the execution and prayer vigils have been scheduled around the state this week.

    Lambrix said he is “very spiritual” but not religious. “I have no doubt whatsoever that I am going to wake up into a better existence.”

    He would be the 94th inmate to be executed in Florida since the state reinstituted the death penalty in 1976.

    http://nypost.com/2017/10/05/death-r...for-last-meal/
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    The 11th Circuit has denied a stay of execution.

    http://cases.justia.com/federal/appe...?ts=1507233704
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    U.S. Supreme Court denied Michael Lambrix’s appeals to stay his execution in Florida tonight, per @chrisgeidner. https://t.co/VJcIakc4Z8
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    Florida executes man convicted of 2 killings decades ago

    STARKE, FLA. - Florida executed an inmate Thursday who was convicted of killing two people after a night of drinking decades ago.

    Michael Lambrix, 57, died by lethal injection at 10:10 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Bradford County.

    For his final words, Lambrix said, "I wish to say the Lord's Prayer." He recited the words, ending on the line "deliver us from evil," his voice breaking slightly at times.

    When he finished and the drug cocktail began flowing through his veins, Lambrix's chest heaved and his lips fluttered. This continues for about five minutes, until his lips and eyelids turned silver-blue and he lay motionless. A doctor checked his chest with a stethoscope and shined a light in both of his eyes before pronouncing him dead.

    Corrections spokeswoman Michelle Glady said Bryant's sister was the only victims' family member to attend and she did not wish to speak with reporters afterward.

    Lambrix was the second inmate 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, argued in an appeal 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.

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday night denied Lambrix's last-ditch appeal.

    Lambrix was convicted of killing Clarence Moore and Aleisha Bryant in 1983 after a long night of partying in a small central Florida town, Labelle, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Fort Meyers. Lambrix said he was innocent.

    He and his roommate, Frances Smith, had met the victims at a bar, and returned to their trailer to eat spaghetti and continue the party, prosecutors said.

    At some point after returning to the trailer, Lambrix asked Moore to go outside. He returned about 20 minutes later and asked Bryant to come out as well, according to Smith's testimony.

    Smith testified at trial that Lambrix returned to the trailer alone after the killings, his clothes covered in blood. The two finished the spaghetti, buried the two bodies and then washed up, according to Smith's testimony cited in court documents.

    Prosecutors said Lambrix choked Bryant, and used a tire iron to kill Moore. Investigators found the bodies, the tire iron and the bloody shirt.

    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," he 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's first trial ended in a hung jury. The jury in the second trial found him guilty of both murders, and a majority of jurors recommended death.

    He was originally scheduled to be executed in 2016, but that was postponed after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in a case called Hurst v. Florida, which found Florida's system for sentencing people to death was unconstitutional because it gave too much power to judges, instead of juries.

    Florida's Supreme Court has ruled that the new death sentencing system only applies to cases back to 2002.

    http://amp.miamiherald.com/latest-ne...177139201.html
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