Michael Lambrix has faced already one execution by the electric chair when a warrant was signed in 1988
He now faces execution by lethal injection on February 11th, 2016
He now faces execution by lethal injection on February 11th, 2016
On February 11, 2016 the State of Florida will proceed to put Cary Michael Lambrix to death by lethal injection, despite the fact that on January 12th, 2016 the United States Supreme Court, in an unprecedented 8 to 1 decision, declared that the Florida death penalty process is unconstitutional.
All eyes will now be on the Lambrix case - the first execution since the landmark Hurst v Florida case was released. The Florida Supreme Court will hear ‘oral arguments’ in Lambrix’s case at 9.00 am on February 2, 2016.
Today Michael Lambrix comments about the particularly unusual circumstances surrounding his imminent execution:
All eyes will now be on the Lambrix case - the first execution since the landmark Hurst v Florida case was released. The Florida Supreme Court will hear ‘oral arguments’ in Lambrix’s case at 9.00 am on February 2, 2016.
Today Michael Lambrix comments about the particularly unusual circumstances surrounding his imminent execution:
What is most troubling about Florida’s continued push to put me to death is that this will actually be the second time that the U.S. Supreme Court specifically found that the process employed to sentence me to death was unconstitutional, only to have the State of Florida circumvent this illegal sentence of death by arguing that I am not entitled to relief for no other reason but that judicially created ‘rules’ prevent me from obtaining relief since my first round of appeals were completed and ‘new rules’ cannot be retroactively applied. See Lambrix v Singletary, 520 US 518 (1997)(Supreme Court decision, ruling by marginal 5 to 4 vote that although I was unconstitutionally sentenced to death, I was ‘time-barred’ from relief.) **
As if that wasn’t enough, the State of Florida intends to put me to death despite my innocence. My consistently pled claim of innocence has been repeatedly presented to both the State and Federal courts, yet each time the courts have refused to address this innocence claim.
What must be emphasized is that by the State’s own admission, the evidence against Lambrix was totally circumstantial: According to his lawyers, there were no eyewitnesses, no physical or forensic evidence and no confessions. Post-conviction evidence was discovered substantiating Lambrix’s consistently led claim of innocence, but relief was denied on procedural grounds.
Michael Lambrix is an Honorably Discharged "Disabled Veteran" suffering from back injury.
To read all appeals and records in Lambrix’s case, visit www.southerninjustice.net
To get informed about the ongoing campaign, go to www.save-innocents.com/save-michael-lambrix.html
Michael Lambrix is an Honorably Discharged "Disabled Veteran" suffering from back injury.
To read all appeals and records in Lambrix’s case, visit www.southerninjustice.net
To get informed about the ongoing campaign, go to www.save-innocents.com/save-michael-lambrix.html
** Listen to the first ruling (5 - 4) of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Mike Lambrix in 1997 (4mns) or find out more here
Contacts
. General: Emmanuelle Purdon - T. (+ 44) 751 535 71 49
. Penpal of Mike Lambrix and founder of Lifelines: Jan Arriens
. Legal: Adam Tebrugge
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