Convicted Murderer: Robert Hendrix Execution
April 24, 2014 by staff
Convicted Murderer: Robert Hendrix Execution, Nearly 24 years after he murdered a young Lake County couple, Robert Hendrix was executed Wednesday evening by lethal injection at Florida State Prison.
Hendrix, who made no final statement, died at 6:21 p.m., 10 minutes after being injected with the first of three lethal drugs.
He was put to death for the brutal slayings of his cousin Elmer Bryant Scott Jr., 25, and his wife, Michelle Scott, 18. Hendrix slashed Scott’s throat, put a bullet in his head and clubbed him with the gun so many times that the trigger broke off in the victim’s scalp.
Then he shot Michelle Scott twice in the head, stabbed her more than 30 times and cut her throat. He left the couple’s 5-month-old baby, Rachel, unharmed in her crib.
Rachel, now 24, joined relatives of the victims in the front row of Florida State Prison’s viewing room, separated from Hendrix by a long window.
When the curtain was opened, Hendrix was lying on his back, his feet to the witnesses. He was strapped to a gurney and covered by a white sheet.
Only a portion of his left arm was visible. His left hand was bandaged and secured to an armrest. The bandages are used to prevent condemned killers from flashing gang signs or making obscene gestures, Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jessica Cary said.
Hendrix’s breathing was visible during the first five minutes. Then his chest stopped moving.
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