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September 7, 2017Governor Rick Scott has scheduled an October 5 execution for Cary Michael Lambrix, a Death Row inmate convicted of killing Aleisha Bryant and Clarence Moore in 1983. Scott ordered Lambrix to be put to death last year, but the Florida Supreme Court put the execution on hold after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the state's death-penalty sentencing system. The death warrant for Lambrix, issued Friday, September 1, came little more than a week after Mark Asay was executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 19 months.
The FCCB will continue to urge that death sentences be commuted to life in prision without parole. The Church teaches that if non-lethal means are available to keep society safe from an aggressor, then authority must limit itself to such means." (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2267)
We are grateful for those who contacted Governor Rick Scott prior to the August 24 execution of Mark Asay and who joined us in prayer either privately or at one of the many prayer vigils held across Florida. Please be on the lookout for an action alert that urges our governor to spare the life of Mr. Lambrix and for upcoming opportunities in your diocese to pray for those on death row, the victims of their crimes, and Governor Scott.