Florida prepares for next execution

Florida prepares for next execution

STARKE, FL - Authorities with the Florida Department of Corrections are planning to carry out the 65th execution since the death penalty was restored in 1976 by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is scheduled for Tuesday, September 23.

Richard Henyard, 34, is scheduled to die tomorrow for the murders of two little girls, 3-and 7-year-old sisters.

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.