MIAMI – A prisoner accused of the murder in 2003 of two men in the city of Tampa, on the west coast of Florida, communicated in a letter to the court that he withdraws his declaration of innocence for the double crime and requests that the death penalty be applied, a local media reported this Friday.
Steven Lorenzo, 2003 years old, who was charged and prosecuted for the tortured murder of two men in 2003, sent a handwritten letter to the court last week retracting his plea of innocence, withdrawing his right to to appeal and asks that the maximum penalty be applied, the channel Tampa Bay picked up.
The court has scheduled a hearing next week to that Lorenzo fill out a proper plea form.
For more For a decade, the prisoner had denied his involvement in the death of Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz, who disappeared in 2003.
Despite the fact that Lorenzo was not immediately charged with murder, that changed in 2012 when prosecutors said Lorenzo and Scott Schweickert drugged, tortured and murdered Galehouse and Wachholtz, then cut up their bodies and placed the parts in garbage containers.