Gov. Rick Scott signed a death warrant Monday for Michael Ray Lambrix, who has spent 31 years on Death Row for killing two people after escaping from a work-release program.
Lambrix, 55, also known as Cary Michael Lambrix, was sentenced to death in 1984 for the murders of Aleisha Bryant and Clarence Moore Jr.
According to the governor’s office, Lambrix escaped from a work-release detail in December 1982, while serving two years for violating probation.
On Feb. 5, 1983, after meeting Bryant and Moore at a bar in Glades County, Lambrix invited the pair to his trailer for dinner with his roommate, Frances Smith.
Lambrix was accused of attacking Moore with a tire iron when they were alone outside the trailer, then calling Bryant outside, where she was kicked in the head and strangled. Lambrix would later take a gold chain from Moore’s body and Moore’s car.
Smith, who helped Lambrix bury the bodies and dispose of the tire iron, was arrested three days later on an unrelated charge and would tell police about the two bodies.
Under Scott’s warrant, Lambrix is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Feb. 11. Lambrix is the second Death Row inmate with an active death warrant from Scott.
On Oct. 30, a day after Jerry Correll was executed at Florida State Prison, Scott signed the death warrant for convicted murderer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr.
Bolin, 53, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Jan. 7 for the 1986 murder of Teri Lynn Matthews, who was abducted from the Land O’ Lakes post office and later found wrapped in a sheet on the side of a road in rural Pasco County.