A DOUBLE murderer has finally been sentenced for his horrific crimes 20 years after two men were tortured and killed.

Steven Lorenzo was sentenced to death in the 2003 murders after the men were drugged, tortured, and raped in Florida.

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Lorenzo pleaded guilty to the brutal killings back in 2016 and elected to represent himself in his sentencing this week.

Before he was caught, Lorenzo previously worked with co-conspirator Scott Schweickert to terrorize Tampa’s gay community, according to Fox 13.

The two hunted for men to use as sex slaves, the news outlet reported.

Lorenzo’s victims, 26-year-olds Jason Galehouse and Michael Waccholtz, vanished from a nightclub just one night apart in December 2003.

Wachholtz’s body was found in his parked car outside his apartment weeks after his killing while Galehouse’s remains have never been located after he was dismembered.

In previous court proceedings, Lorenzo left the courtroom speechless when he told the judge that Galehouse was killed after things got “out of hand” during a sexual encounter with Schweickert.

The men feared Galehouse would go to the cops, he said.

“We realized the kid was probably going to call the police on us, so we had a pow wow, and we said ‘This kid can’t leave, he’s going to identify all four of us,'” Lorenzo said, as reported by FOX 13.

“So that’s why the decision was made.”

Lorenzo, who rejected his right to counsel at his sentencing, asked for one last opportunity to address the court.

He wanted to express his desire for “euthanasia, as I call it,” he said, calling humans “eternal beings.”

“The sooner I euthanize, the sooner I can come back. I’ve got better things to do with my time than to hang out and spend the next 15 to 20 years on death row or in any prison system.”

Judge Sabella, who remained calm through the trial, responded plainly: “I don’t know if it’s some kind of reverse psychology…

“I will not consider what you want in the sentence of this case.”

The judge borrowed words from the mother of one of Lorenzo’s victims to deliver his final sentence.

“In the words of Ms. Pam Williams, from one Italian to another, Ti condanno a morte.

“That translates to ‘I sentence you to death,'” he said.

“That is the punishment you deserve for these horrific crimes.”

Lorenzo, who appeared quite pleased with outcome, thanked the judge before he was taken out of the courtroom.

“Everybody is born with a death sentence in this room. Everyone is on death row. We’re all going to go sometime,” Lorenzo stated previously.

Lorenzo’s insistence on being given the death penalty did not come as a complete shock to everyone.

Tyler Butler, a close friend of the late Galehouse, claimed that inmates on death row tend to receive better treatment than expected.

“They get their own cell, three nice meals a day, internet,” he said.

“I want him to suffer as much as my friend and the other men.”

While Butler has mixed-emotions about the death penalty, he wants to respect the desires of Galehouse’s mother, who asked that Lorenzo’s life is put to an end.

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