[2] He was convicted, sentenced to death, and subsequently executed in 2017 at Florida State Prison by lethal injection.

[5] On July 17, 1987, Asay, his brother Robbie, and friend Bubba, visited multiple bars in Jacksonville, Florida, where they drank beer and played pool.

After leaving a bar in the early hours of July 18, the three men decided to head downtown to find some prostitutes.

Both men were unaware that Renee was actually a 26-year-old mixed-race white and Hispanic man named Robert McDowell, who dressed as a woman.

[6][7] Asay later told two acquaintances that he shot McDowell because he had allegedly cheated him out of ten dollars in a drug deal.

The acquaintances also testified that Asay had claimed to shoot McDowell four times in the chest and that he shot him again once he had fallen to the ground.

[10][11][12] Asay later admitted to a Jacksonville television station that he killed McDowell but maintained his innocence in the murder of Booker.

Asay's execution warrant had been signed by Governor Rick Scott prior to the ruling in early January.

[5] Asay's lawyers tried arguing that the new combination of drugs violated his constitutional right to an execution free from cruel and unusual punishment.

[5] On August 24, 2017, Asay was executed at Florida State Prison via lethal injection, in which the new drug combination was used.

This caused the Supreme Court of Florida to issue a rare mea culpa not long before Asay's execution, in which they acknowledged that for more than twenty years they had mistakenly believed that McDowell was black.