Duval County

Mr. Asay is scheduled to be executed March 17. He was convicted of the murders of Robert Booker and Robert McDowell, who were fatally shot in 1987. The jury voted 9-3 to recommend a death sentence for each murder and the trial court condemned him to death. His appeals in state and federal court were denied and the warrant scheduling his execution was signed in January. Mr. Asay filed a post-conviction challenge in trial court and it was denied. This appeal followed.