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    Richard Henyard - Florida Execution - September 23, 2008


    Jamiya Lewis, 7, and Jasmine Lewis, 3




    Facts of the Crime:
    Convicted and sentenced to death in the January 30, 1993 murder of seven-year-old Jamiya Lewis and three-year-old Jasmine Lewis.

    Henyard was 18 when he and a 14-year-old accomplice, Alfonza Smalls, carjacked and kidnapped Dorothy Lewis and her daughters from the parking lot of the Winn-Dixie in Eustis. Lewis and her girls had gone to shop for ingredients to make a strawberry-pretzel salad for a church picnic. Henyard, who had stolen the gun that Smalls carried in his waistband, wanted a car to drive to a dance club in Orlando and then to visit his father in Pahokee. He and Smalls drove the mother and her frightened children to a deserted area, where the two teens took turns raping Lewis on the trunk of the car in view of her daughters. Henyard then suddenly shot the mother. She was shot four times -- once in the middle of the forehead. As Lewis quietly prayed to Jesus, Henyard said: "This ain't Jesus; this is Satan."

    Miraculously, Lewis survived and later dragged herself to a nearby house for help. Meanwhile, Henyard and Smalls continued on their nightmarish joy ride with the children in the back seat. The little girls were crying and calling out for their mommy. Both children were taken from the car and shot in the head at close range. The day after the shooting, Henyard went to the Eustis Police Department and initially told a story implicating Smalls and another man. When police noticed bloodstains on his sock, he admitted helping abduct Lewis and her children. He also said he raped her and shot her. He said that he was present when the children were shot, but that he did not shoot them. Small was too young to face execution. He was sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences for the kidnapping, rape and murder.

    Victims: Jamiya Lewis and Jasmine Lewis

    Time of Death: 8:16 PM

    Manner of Execution: Lethal Injection

    Last Meal: two fried-chicken breasts, turkey sausage, fried rice, prison-made chocolate-chip cookies and Coca-Cola

    Final Words: None

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    September 24, 2008

    Lake killer of 2 girls executed

    STARKE -- Lake County child killer Richard Henyard lived two hours and six minutes longer than scheduled.

    But in the end Tuesday he died a more peaceful death than his victims, 7-year-old Jamilya Lewis and her 3-year-old sister, Jasmine. Terrified after their mother, Dorothy Lewis, was shot, raped and left for dead Jan. 30, 1993, the girls died after being shot in the head at close range.

    Gov. Charlie Crist held up the execution by lethal injection while awaiting a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on a last-ditch appeal. After word came that the appeal had been denied, Henyard, 34, of Eustis was asked if he had any last words. "No, sir," he said. He was pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m.

    "Taking the life of Mr. Henyard is not going to revive my daughters," Dorothy Lewis, who did not attend the execution at Florida State Prison, said in a statement read by her husband, Hugh Brockington. "I do not consider this event as a joyous occasion, and I am sorry that this execution had to take place. But Romans 6:23 clearly states, 'The wages of sin is death . . . I pray that Mr. Henyard had enough sense to ask God to forgive him of his sins."

    Henyard's lips moved for two minutes after the lethal mixture of chemicals was administered. Gretl Plessinger, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections, said she assumed Henyard was praying because his spiritual adviser, a Muslim cleric from Jacksonville, had inquired about the procedure earlier in the day. Henyard had become a Muslim while in prison, Plessinger said.

    He was 18 when he and a 14-year-old accomplice, Alfonza Smalls, carjacked and kidnapped Lewis and her daughters from the parking lot of the Winn-Dixie in Eustis. Lewis and her girls had gone to shop for ingredients to make a strawberry-pretzel salad for a church picnic.

    Henyard, who had stolen the gun that Smalls carried in his waistband, wanted a car to drive to a dance club in Orlando and then to visit his father in Pahokee.

    He and Smalls drove the mother, now 51, and her frightened children to Hicks Ditch Road, where the two teens took turns raping Lewis on the trunk of the car in view of her daughters.

    Henyard then suddenly shot the mother. She was shot four times -- once in the middle of the forehead.

    Lewis quietly prayed to Jesus, but Henyard said: "This ain't Jesus; this is Satan."

    http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...thy-lewis-shot

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