Michael Lambrix, 57, died by lethal injection at 10:10 p.m.
at Florida State Prison in Bradford County on October 5, 2017. He was
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'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.
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