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Ybor City couple's killer dies in prison
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Published: September 8, 2009
TAMPA - A Tampa woman who has been waiting more than two decades to hear that the killer of her parents is dead has finally gotten her wish.
Alphonso Green, however, was not executed. He died Thursday at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford. A prosecutor said Green had pancreatic cancer.
Robert "R.J." Nichols Jr., 77, and his wife of 52 years, Dora Virginia Nichols, 71, were stabbed to death with a butcher knife in their home near Ybor City in October 1986. Police said Green killed his landlords because he wanted money to buy cocaine.
He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1987.
The couple's daughter, Patricia Anderson, said the news of Green's death was something she'd waited a long time to hear.
An execution date for Green had not been set.
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