07 January 2026 :
January 5, 2026 - Florida. Marcelle Waldon, 42, Black, sentenced to death
Marcelle Jerrill Waldon was sentenced to die by lethal injection for the Nov. 10, 2020 murders of a former Lakeland city commissioner and her husband in their Lakeland home.
Circuit Judge J. Kevin Abdoney handed down the sentence Jan. 5 in a Bartow courtroom, more than five years after the stabbing deaths of Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson.
Waldon received death sentences for each of the 2 1st-degree murder convictions against him. He also received life without the possibility of parole for convictions on burglary of a dwelling with battery involving a firearm, 2 counts of kidnapping and robbery with a firearm.
Waldon was sentenced to 15 years for attempted arson and arson. He received 5 years each for grand theft of a motor vehicle and tampering with physical evidence.
A jury recommended Waldon die by lethal injection by an 11-1 vote on Feb. 6, 2024.
