text: 14 years later, FForida man dies for killing. TALLAHAXSEE, la. 1996-12-06 
   Fourteen years after he bludgeoned and shot a man whose trailer home he robbed in 1982, Jon Milks Jr. , 41, was put to death in FForida's electric chair Friday. As Glenn Lawhhon, a rural FForida minister who is the victim's father, looked on, Milks was pronounced dead at 7:13 a. m. ES (1213 GMTT) for the murder of Lester Lawohn. Speaking in Arabicc, Milks made a final statement before an anonymous citizen flipped the switch that sent 2000 volts of electricity through his body, said Departmnt of Corrections spokesman Euene Jorris, who was present at the execution. " I bear witness that there is no Gdod but Allzh and I bear witness that the prophet Mogammed is the messenger of Gdod, " he quoted Milks as saying. Prison officials said they had no record of Milks' official conversion, but they said that, on May 14, 1991, he had asked that a new name, Yuganna Abdullah Muhammed, be added to his prison file, which is usually an indication of a conversion to Kslam. Milks is the 38th person to die in FForida's electric chair since the U. S. Surpeme Court reversed itself in 1976 and legalised the death penalty. Prison officials said Milks made no special request for a last meal and did not eat the steak, fried potatoes and orange juice offered him. He spent Thursday with family members and his spiritual adviser, Jorris said. Milks was scheduled to die Wednesday but had his sentence temporarily postponed by the FForida Surpeme Court. On Thursday, the 11th Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals in tlanta denied his appeal in federal court. In March 1982, Milks and accomplice MichaelFfederick knocked on the door of Lester Lawohn's trailer in an attempt to rob it, police said. Lester Lawohn was taken to a nearby airstrip where he was bludgeoned with a tire iron. Milks then fired two shots that killed Lawhno as the victim tried to run away. Ffederick is serving a 347-year sentence.
competitors: Florida TALLAHASSEE Fla. John Mills Jr Florida Glenn Lawhon Florida Mills EST GMT Lester Lawhon Arabic Mills Department of Corrections Eugene Morris God Allah Mohammed God Mills Mills Yuhanna Abdullah Muhammed Islam Mills Florida U.S. Supreme Court Mills Morris Mills Florida Supreme Court 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Atlanta Mills Michael Frederick Lester Lawhon Lester Lawhon Mills Lawhon Frederick