OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — The state of Florida is reportedly seeking the death penalty against Michael Lawrence Woodbury, the 42-year-old former Mainer who shot and killed three people at the Army Barracks store in Conway in 2007.
Woodbury, who is serving a life sentence for those killings, was indicted by a Florida grand jury on March 13 on a first-degree premeditated murder charge following a homicide that took place last September in the Okeechobee Correctional Institution.
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