Posted on 03/18/2026 1:02:32 PM PDT by TheDon
The man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering Denise Amber Lee, a 21-year-old mother of two from North Port, was executed on Tuesday.
At the scheduled execution time of 6 p.m., the curtain went up, and King gave a nearly inaudible statement
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He did not apologize for the murder or seek forgiveness.
The incident happened in 2008 when Lee saved her kids after Michael King, 54, broke into her home and took her.
King then took Lee to his home and raped her before driving her out to a remote area, shooting her and burying her. At one point, Lee was able to get hold of King's cell phone to call 911.
However, despite multiple 911 calls that provided descriptions of King's location, no officers were reportedly sent to help.
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Last week, the Florida Supreme Court denied King's motion for a stay of execution and affirmed his conviction.
"He's going to burn in hell as he should do. That's my feelings," Rick Goff, Denise Amber Lee's father, said in a previous interview with Gulf Coast News. "He's never reached out, you know, to the family. And he still says he never did anything.”
King was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.,m. Tuesday after lethal injection at the Florida State Prison.
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And now his troubles are over.
Real victims get zero chances and zero stays.
I’ll drink a toast to that
This bum got 18 extra years that he didn’t deserve.
But Denise Amber’s family’s troubles last a lifetime.
He was 54 at the time of the murder or the time of his execution?
It’s disgusting that 18 years to termination is dpwnright speedy by current standards. R.I.P., Denise Amber Lee.
May the raping-murdering coward be unnamed and erased from memory.
What the heck?
Yes, sadly.
The ENTIRE police department should have been FIRED.
ALL they way up to and including the CHIEF.
Since they ACTED like they had no job they could damned well actually have no job.
RAZE the department and PAVE IT WITH FIRE if that’s how they’re gonna fail the community.
To hell with him!
That’s a hard and fast policy in my jurisdiction anyway.
Executed murderer recidivism rate: 0%.
America is a better place today.
We need to revisit the appeals process.....too many of these vermin are allowed to breathe our oxygen too long
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