TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man nicknamed the “Deacon of Death” was executed Tuesday evening, nearly 30 years after committing two murders in Florida.
Samuel Smithers, 72, was a church deacon when he murdered Christie Cowan and Denise Roach in 1996.
Investigators said he paid both women for sex, then killed them and dumped their bodies in a pond in Plant City.
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Smithers’ time of death was 6:15 p.m. after a lethal injection. When asked if he had anything left to say, he said “no sir,” according to Alex Lanfranconi, spokesman for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis…