Michael Lambrix (above on Tuesday) is set to be executed Thursday after being convicted of killing two people in 1983 in Florida
A convicted killer in Florida is set to be executed on Thursday and has requested a final meal featuring a Thanksgiving-style turkey dinner.
Michael Lambrix, 57, has been on Death Row in the Sunshine State for 34 years after being convicted in the deaths of Clarence Moore and his girlfriend Aleisha Bryant in 1983.
‘It won’t be an execution,’ Lambrix told the Miami Herald of his scheduled execution on Thursday.
‘It’s going to be an act of cold-blooded murder.’
Lambrix claimed Tuesday to have killed Moore in self-defense after Moore killed Bryant near LaBelle in Glades County during a long night of drinking that started at a bar and ended up at his trailer, NBC2 reported.
At the time of the incident, Lambrix and his girlfriend, Frances Smith, had met Moore out at a bar in Glades County, according to court records.
The 57-year-old (above in older mugshots) was convicted of killing Clarence Moore and his girlfriend Aleisha Bryant. Lambrix has requested a final meal featuring a Thanksgiving-style turkey dinner
At the time of the incident, Lambrix and his girlfriend, Frances Smith, had met Moore out at a bar (pictured above since closing down) in Glades County, according to court records
Not long after, Moore’s girlfriend showed up and the group were having a nice evening.
‘We drank, and we danced, and we were having a great night,’ Lambrix said.
The group of four had eventually agreed to go back to Lambrix’s mobile home and continue hanging out.
Court documents state that Smith testified that Lambrix had Moore come out of the mobile home while playing jokes on the girls inside.
The group of four had eventually agreed to go back to Lambrix’s mobile home (above) and continue hanging out. Smith testified during the trial that Lambrix killed both Moore and Bryant and asked her to help him bury their bodies
Roughly 20 minutes later, Lambrix asked Bryant to come outside and when he went back into the mobile home, he told Smith that he killed them both and needed her to help him bury the bodies, according to Smith’s testimony.
Smith told police that story when they stopped her in the Tampa area driving Moore’s car, which had been reported missing.
Lambrix said that he didn’t call 911 to report their deaths because he knew he would face a long prison sentence since he had walked away from a prison work-release program.
The first trial for Lambrix ended with a hung jury.
But he was eventually convicted at a retrial of two counts of first-degree murder. He is set to be executed on Thursday by lethal injection.
The first trial for Lambrix ended with a hung jury. But he was eventually convicted at a retrial of two counts of first-degree murder. He is set to be executed on Thursday by lethal injection (file above)
Of his last meal, Lambrix said he wants a Thanksgiving-style turkey dinner. He said his mother had promised to cook that if he was ever exonerated.
He is holding out hope that his lawyers’ final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court will result in an intervention of the scheduled execution.
He does regret not taking a plea deal offered by prosecutors which would have had him serve up to 24 years if he had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Had he accepted the offer, he would have been released more than a decade ago.
If executed, Lambrix will be the 94th inmate to be executed in the state since the death penalty was re-instituted in 1976.
‘We’re the only Western country in the entire world that kills its citizens under the pretense of the administration of justice,’ Lambrix said.