Execution continues after two hour delay
Execution continues after two hour delay
POSTED 09/23/2008 - Florida’s latest execution proceeded Tuesday after a nearly two-hour delay spent in awaiting final rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court. The delay came as the court reviewed Henyard’s last appeal and denied a stay of execution. Henyard was pronounced dead 8:16 p.m.
Richard Henyard, 34, had been scheduled for execution at 6 p.m. for the 1993 deaths of two young central Florida girls.
He and a teenage accomplice carjacked their mother Carol Lewis outside a central Florida grocery store 15 years ago. Lewis was raped and shot multiple times, but she survived. The children were killed as they cried for their mother.
The moratorium on executions was lifted 18 months ago and Governor Crist said he wanted to sign death warrants for those convicted of the most heinous murders.
