& SC16-56 Cary Michael Lambrix v. State of Florida and Cary Michael Lambrix v. Julie L. Jones, etc.

Cary Michael Lambrix is a prisoner under sentence of death for whom a death warrant was signed. This Court stayed the death warrant as a result of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Hurst v. Florida, — U.S. —, 136 S.Ct. 616, 619, 193 L.Ed.2d 604 (2016), to determine if that opinion was entitled to retroactive application to a death sentence that was final in 1986.

Lambrix was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1983 first-degree murder of two victims after Lambrix had invited them to his trailer to eat dinner. Lambrix v. State, 494 So.2d 1143, 1145 (Fla. 1986). On direct…