A former prison guard trainee who executed five women inside a Florida bank in 2019 deserves the death penalty because the massacre was “shockingly evil,” long-planned and designed to mentally torture his victims, a prosecutor argued at the killer's penalty trial on Wednesday.
Assistant State Attorney Bonde Johnson told jurors during closing arguments that Zephen Xaver, 27, carried out the mass shooting at Sebring's SunTrust bank to satisfy his yearslong desire to experience killing, forcing the women to lie down before executing them.
