When Life Means Life

Lolita Barthel was convicted of murdering 64-year-old Richard Menendez during a home robbery in Tampa six years ago. At Dade Correctional Institution, Barthel sees her future in her fellow inmates. "I don't believe that this is the end for me. . . . Sooner or later my chance will come, and then I can prove myself."
[Times photo: Jamie Francis]

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