Robert Henry was executed by the State of Florida for two murders committed during a robbery
According to court documents Robert Henry would rob a Cloth Store and in the process beat two employees to death with a hammer: 53-year-old Phyllis Harris and 35-year-old Janet Thermidor. Henry would set the store on fire before fleeing
Robert Henry would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Robert Henry was executed on March 20 2014
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Robert Henry was executed on March 20 2014
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Last-minute appeals are being heard for a South Florida man who faces execution for killing two women by beating them with a hammer and setting them on fire.
Barring a successful appeal, 55-year-old Robert Henry is scheduled to die by injection Thursday night at Florida State Prison in Starke.
Henry was convicted of the 1987 slayings of 53-year-old Phyllis Harris and 35-year-old Janet Thermidor, his co-workers at a Deerfield Beach fabric store.
Henry initially told police the crime was committed by an unknown assailant. But Thermidor lived long enough to identify him as her killer, and he later confessed.
Prosecutors say Henry did it for money — $1,200 to be exact.
Henry is challenging Florida’s method of lethal injection in his latest U.S. Supreme Court appeal.
