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According to a review by The Marshall Project, at least 34 boys who stayed at the infamous Dozier School and another 16 sent to Okeechobee — a separate boys’ school with a troubled history — ended up on Florida’s death row.
Florida matched a modern-era record for executions in a year when Michael Bell was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 1993 murders of two people outside a Jacksonville bar.
Michael Bernard Bell, 54, received a lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 1993 double murder of Jimmy West and Tamecka Smith.
As the state prepares to execute Jacksonville killer Michael Bell, here's a look at five of the most reprehensible cases this century in Duval County.