The man previously on Florida’s Death Row for beating, stabbing and strangling a La Carreta waitress with a rice cooker — before lighting a blaze to destroy key evidence — should be condemned to die, Miami prosecutors told a jury after detailing the slaying on Wednesday morning.
Rafael Andres, 61, was convicted in 2014 of the 2005 murder of 31-year-old Yvette Fariñas. Fariñas, who was a waitress at La Carreta’s Miami International Airport restaurant, had hired Andres, a handyman, to do renovations at the efficiency she lived in with her boyfriend.
Andres — originally sentenced to death by a jury in a 9-3 vote — was granted a new sentencing trial due to constitutional issues surrounding the state’s death penalty. Andres is already serving a life sentence on other charges stemming from the murder…