when he returned to miami, he began singing like a canary and revealed where the bodies were hidden. lugos thought he’d catch a break — he was dead wrong. they identified furton through the serial number on her breast implants.
on oct. 2, 1996, lugos and doorbal were sentenced to death.
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twenty-eight years later, the duo remain on death row. last week, in miami, they began a desperate bid for their lives even though they had been sentenced to death twice.
prosecutors outlined the gruesome yarn. defence lawyers didn’t deny the meatheads’ guilt but noted both have been model prisoners for the past three decades.
hiya doin: execution chamber at the texas department of criminal justice huntsville unit in huntsville, texas (paul buck/afp/getty images)
doorbal’s lawyer bruce fleisher claimed his client was manipulated by lugo. he too pointed the finger at steroids. tiny doorbal’s weight exploded from 125 pounds to nearly 250 pounds, making him look like a fire hydrant.
“his personality changed. he was more irritable, aggressive. he kept getting bigger, bigger and bigger with the steroids,” fleisher said. “he just followed what lugo had to say to him.”
the duo was slated to catch the night train to nowheresville in 2017 but a change in law caused their sentencing ordered to be re-tried. however, after the brouhaha of high school shooter nikolas cruz escaping the needle, the law changed back.