The fate of the handyman who beat, stabbed and strangled a La Carreta waitress with a rice cooker cord — and was once on Florida’s Death Row for the slaying — is in the hands of a Miami jury.
On Thursday, prosecutors and defense attorneys made their final arguments in the resentencing of Rafael Andres, a 61-year-old convicted of brutally killing Yvette Fariñas on Jan. 24, 2005. Fariñas, a waitress at La Carreta’s Miami International Airport location, had hired Andres, a handyman, to do renovations at the efficiency she lived in with her boyfriend.
Andres was granted a new sentencing trial due to constitutional issues surrounding the state’s death penalty. In 2015, a Miami jury condemned Andres to die in a 9-3 vote…