(This article was revised to include more detail from the sentencing and the case.)
At times rocking in his chair, tilting his head back and closing his eyes, a shackled Marcelle Jerrill Waldon was sentenced to die by lethal injection for the 2020 murders of a former Lakeland city commissioner and her husband in their Lakeland home.
Circuit Judge J. Kevin Abdoney handed down the sentence Jan. 5 in a Bartow courtroom, more than five years after the stabbing deaths of Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson inside their home in the quiet Lake Morton neighborhood…