TAMPA, Fla. — Hillsborough prosecutors will seek the death penalty against two men accused in a pair of 1983 murders, one of which resulted in another man’s wrongful conviction and imprisonment for 37 years.
The office of acting Hillsborough State Attorney Susan Lopez late last month filed written notices of intent to seek capital punishment for Amos Robinson and Abron Scott. They were charged in August with the slayings of Linda Lansen and Barbara Grams, who were both killed in the summer of 1983.
The new charges came two years after the office’s conviction review unit, created by former State Attorney Andrew Warren, determined that Robert DuBoise had been wrongfully convicted for Grams’ murder. Indictments against Robinson and Scott came the same day that Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Warren from office and appointed Lopez to replace him.
