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Execution set tonight for killer of two
By firstcoastnews.com
Published: 03/20/2014

MIAMI — A man convicted of killing two female co-workers by beating them with a hammer and setting them on fire is scheduled for execution tonight at Florida State Prison in Starke.

Robert L. Henry, 55, was sentenced to die for the November 1987 slayings of Phyllis Harris, 53, and 35-year-old Janet Thermidor, with whom he worked at the Cloth World store in Deerfield Beach. After the attacks, he stole $1,269 from the store.

Although Henry at first told police the crime was committed by an unknown assailant, Thermidor lived long enough to positively identify him as the perpetrator in a recorded statement to investigators. Broward State Attorney Michael Satz, who prosecuted the 1988 trial, told the jury that Henry had committed one of the most cold-blooded acts in recent memory.

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