A Florida man has been executed for the brutal murder of a young mother who made a desperate 911 call from her attacker's mobile phone while tied up in his car. Michael Lee King, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. on Tuesday evening following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He had been convicted of first-degree murder, sexual battery, and kidnapping in the 2008 killing of Denise Amber Lee, who was 21.
The curtain to the death chamber was raised at 6 p.m., the scheduled execution time. King delivered a nearly inaudible final statement, the text of which was later released by Governor Ron DeSantis's office. "Since finding Jesus in prison, I have tried to live as His disciple obeying the Two Great Commandments: To love God with all my heart, my mind and all my being, and to love my neighbor to include everyone — my family, Denise Lee's family, everyone in the gallery," he said, also mentioning Catholic volunteers and "those on the team to end my life."
