Marcelle Waldon sentenced to death for 2020 Lake Morton murders

(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…

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