Coutesy photo. Roy Lee McDuffie was sentenced at re-trial in November to three life sentences after his first trial conviction and death sentences were tossed on technical grounds in the 2002 killings of two Dollar General Store employees in Deltona during a robbery that netted him $7,000.
DELTONA -- Roy Lee McDuffie got his wish Nov. 19, when a jury recommended three life sentences in favor of returning him to death row in the 2002 killings of two employees of the Dollar General Store in Deltona.
The 45-year-old McDuffie was found guilty a second time of two counts of first-degree murder, robbery with a firearm and false imprisonment in the slayings of cashiers Janice Schneider, 39, and Dawniel Beauregard, 27, both bound with duct tape, stabbed and shot.
He won a re-trial on technical grounds. The jury this time around deliberated 2 1/2 hours before reaching its verdicts and McDuffie was sentenced by Circuit Judge James R. Clayton.
McDuffie thanked his defense team, including lead attorney Rob Sanders, while a disappointed prosecutor Colleen Taylor said she respected the jury's decision, adding in part that the condemned killer would eventually "die in prison."
Currently, there is no parole for convicts sentenced to life in Florida.