He was executed for the murder of Ravonne Smith, a bar employee he befriended and later beat and stabbed with an oyster knife in 1996.
This booking photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Michael Duane Zack III. A man who killed two women after meeting them a day apart in north Florida bars in 1996 was put to death Tuesday evening.
Zack’s nine-day crime run that year began in Tallahassee, the state capital, where he was a regular at a bar. When Zack’s girlfriend called and said he was being evicted, the bartender offered to loan him her pickup truck. Zack left with it and never returned, according to court records. At the home, Zack smashed her over the head with a bottle, slammed her head into the floor, raped her and stabbed her four times in the center of the chest with the oyster knife, court records show. He then stole the woman’s television, VCR and purse and tried to pawn the electronics. The pawn shop suspected the items were stolen and Zack fled and hid in an empty house for two days before he was arrested, according to court records.
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