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Richard Henyard was an American murderer executed in Florida for the double murder of sisters Jamilya and Jasmine Lewis in January 1993, and the rape and attempted murder of the girls' mother. Henyard committed the murders with an accomplice, 14-year-old Alfonza Smalls. Due to his age, Smalls received a life sentence.

Crimes
On the evening of January 30, 1993, Dorothy Lewis and her daughters arrived at a Winn-Dixie supermarket in Eustis. As they entered the Winn-Dixie, Lewis noticed a few people sitting on a bench near the doors. After Lewis exited the store with Jamilya, age 7, and Jasmine, age 3, she walked to her car and placed her daughters in the front passenger seat. When Henyard heard Lewis praying, he told her, "This ain't Jesus, this is Satan." Later, Henyard, following Smalls's directions pulled the car over at a remote area and took Lewis out of the car. Henyard then raped her as she begged him not to do it in front of her children. At one point, she tried to grab a nearby gun, but Smalls grabbed it first, taunted her, and then also raped her. Henyard then told Lewis to sit on the ground. When she hesitated, and Henyard shot her in the leg and forced her to the ground. The two got into a struggle, and Smalls came over to help Henyard. Henyard then shot Lewis an additional three times at close range, wounding her in the mouth, neck, and head. After she was unconscious, Henyard and Smalls rolled her over to the shoulder of the road. Henyard and Smalls then threw their bodies into some brush over a fence. ==Sentencing and Henyard's execution==
Sentencing and Henyard's execution
Henyard and Smalls both attempted to blame each other for the girls' murders. However, they were both found guilty of two counts of first degree murder under the state's felony murder rule. Henyard was executed on September 23, 2008, by lethal injection. The execution was delayed by two hours because Henyard had two appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court trying to block the execution; both were denied. His last meal consisted of two fried-chicken breasts, turkey sausage, fried rice, prison-made chocolate-chip cookies, and Coca-Cola. When Henyard was asked if he had any last words, he replied, "No, sir." Henyard was the 66th person executed in Florida since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States in the 1970s. Smalls was sentenced to life in prison without parole due to his age. Yon was sentenced to 22 months in prison for being an accessory after the fact. He has been in and out of prison on various charges since then. In 2018, Yon was arrested for beating his girlfriend, albeit the charges were later dropped. He was arrested on drug charges in 2020. == Aftermath with Smalls ==
Aftermath with Smalls
In 2019, Smalls was granted a resentencing hearing due to a Supreme Court ruling in Miller v. Alabama declaring life without parole for juveniles to be unconstitutional. Mentioning Smalls's prison record, Hill said "The defendant has failed to provide or demonstrate any measurable ability to be a productive citizen, in fact he has failed to even be a productive inmate. The defendant would pose a severe risk to society and that such risk outweighs any potential for mitigation of his sentence." Under Florida law, Smalls will eventually be allowed to request another review of his sentence. ==See also==
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