A death row inmate who murdered two men in downtown Jacksonville 29 years ago is scheduled to be executed on St. Patrick's Day.
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a death warrant for 51-year-old Mark Asay for the murders of Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell.
Asay was drinking with friends, and they decided to look for prostitutes after the bar closed. One of Asay's friends was asking Booker about where to find prostitutes when Asay called Booker a racial epithet and shot him in the stomach. Booker ran off and was letter found dead.
Asay and a friend continued looking for prostitutes and agreed to pay McDowell, who was dressed as a woman, for oral sex. But Asay then shot McDowell six times.
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