Florida Man Convicted Of Killing 2 People Outside A Bar Set To Be Put To Death

A Florida man who was convicted successful nan 1993 shooting deaths of a man and female extracurricular a barroom arsenic portion of an attempted revenge sidesplitting is group to beryllium executed connected Tuesday.

Michael Bernard Bell, 54, is scheduled to beryllium put to decease by lethal injection astatine Florida State Prison adjacent nan metropolis of Starke, unless he is granted a last-day reprieve.

Bell was convicted successful 1995 and sentenced to decease successful nan killings of Jimmy West and Tamecka Smith.

In December 1993, Bell spotted what he suspected was nan car of nan man who had killed his relative earlier that year, according to tribunal records. Bell appeared to beryllium unaware that nan man had sold nan car to West.

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Michael Bell was convicted successful 1995 and sentenced to decease successful nan killings of Jimmy West and Tamecka Smith. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP)

Bell called 2 friends and equipped himself pinch an AK-47 earlier locating nan car parked extracurricular a liquor lounge and waiting for nan conveyance proprietor to travel outside. When West, Smith and different female yet exited nan club, Bell approached nan car and fired his gun, according to officials.

West died astatine nan segment and Smith succumbed to her injuries connected nan measurement to nan hospital. The different female was not injured. 

Witnesses reported that Bell besides fired astatine a crowd of onlookers earlier fleeing nan scene.

Bell was arrested nan pursuing year.

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Michael Bell is scheduled to beryllium executed by lethal injection astatine Florida State Prison adjacent Starke connected Tuesday. (AP)

He was besides later convicted of three further murders that happened anterior to nan shooting astatine nan bar. He fatally changeable a female and her toddler successful 1989, and he killed his mother's fellow astir 4 months earlier shooting West and Smith, officials said.

Attorneys for Bell person revenge appeals pinch nan Florida Supreme Court and nan U.S. Supreme Court.

In their authorities filing, nan attorneys based on that Bell's execution should beryllium blocked because of recently discovered grounds concerning witnesser testimony. But justices unanimously rejected nan statement past week, citing what they described arsenic overwhelming grounds of Bell’s guilt.

Bell's attorneys revenge a akin petition pinch nan U.S. Supreme Court connected Thursday, though nan nation's highest tribunal has not yet issued a ruling arsenic his execution clip nears.

Michael Bell would beryllium nan eighth personification executed successful Florida this year. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Bell would beryllium nan eighth personification executed successful Florida this year, and a ninth is scheduled for later this month. The authorities put six group to decease successful 2023, but only 1 execution happened past year.

Across nan U.S., 25 men person been executed truthful acold this year, matching past year's total.

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Florida has executed much group this twelvemonth than immoderate different state, while Texas and South Carolina are tied for 2nd spot pinch 4 each. The states that travel are Alabama pinch 3 executions and Oklahoma pinch two, while Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee each person put 1 personification to death.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.