A Florida man is scheduled to die by lethal injection later Tuesday, for the 1989 murders of an Ohio woman and her two teenage daughters.
Oba Chandler was convicted in 1994 of killing Joan Rogers and daughters Christe and Michelle who were on vacation in Florida. He has been on death row for 17 years.
Rogers and her daughters, 14 and 17 years, were returning from Disney and were in the Tampa area on June 1, 1989, when they stopped to ask Chandler for directions to their motel. The mother and daughters vanished that evening.
Last October, Governor Rick Scott signed Chandler’s death warrant and it is expected that the execution will go forward this afternoon.
