More than three decades after he was convicted of killing two people near LaBelle, Death Row inmate Cary Michael Lambrix was executed late Thursday at Florida State Prison.
Lambrix, 57, died of lethal injection at 10:10 p.m., according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
Earlier, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected bids by Lambrix for a stay of execution.
Lambrix was the second inmate executed after a 19-month hiatus for the state's death penalty because of legal rulings.
Mark James Asay was executed Aug. 24 for killing two men in the 1980s in Jacksonville.
Lambrix was convicted of murdering Aleisha Bryant and Clarence Moore in 1983. Bryant and Moore were killed after meeting Lambrix at a bar and going to his mobile home for a spaghetti dinner.
Lambrix contended in court documents that he was innocent because he killed in self-defense.
Lambrix said Moore assaulted and killed Bryant. He said he tried to intervene and killed Moore in self-defense. But in a ruling last week, the Florida Supreme Court rejected the argument.
“There is no evidence, other than Lambrix's self-serving belated assertions of self-defense, that supports his theory,” the Supreme Court opinion said.
