The state of Florida is scheduled to execute a man Thursday. He will become the second inmate put to death by the state since it restarted executions in August.
Michael Lambrix was convicted of murdering two people, Clarence Moore and Aleisha Bryant, decades ago after a long night of drinking in a small central Florida town, Labelle, about 30 miles northeast of Fort Meyers.
He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison at 6 p.m.
Lambrix's attorney, William Hennis, has argued that, because his client's jury recommendations for death were not unanimous (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.
Lambrix was originally scheduled to be executed in 2016, but that was postponed after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling 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.