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The Senate Bill'd (SB 450) sponsor says it's an effort to avoid one “protest juror” from preventing a death sentence.
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As the state carries out the death penalty again after a more than three-year pause, a Florida House panel Wednesday supported lowering a threshold for sentencing defendants to death.
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The Florida Senate voted 6-2 to approve a state bill that would allow judges to sentence defendants to death based on the recommendations of only eight of the 12 jurors — --instead of requiring a unanimous vote.
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During an appearance in Miami, Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state would explore ways to have the death penalty for people who rape children.
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Students protested the loss of diversity, equity and inclusion programs until the policies of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman near Florida's Capitol 32 years ago is set to be executed by lethal injection.
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The cases involved who qualifies for overtime pay, and Arizona's refusal to apply a Supreme Court precedent in death penalty jury instructions.
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The Florida Supreme Court has rejected appeals by a death row inmate who killed Faye Vann in the Tallahassee Mall parking lot in 1990.
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Florida lawmakers could scrap a bill that would eliminate a requirement for unanimous jury recommendations before death sentences can be imposed.
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Death penalty researchers say the record-high number of mishandled executions put into question states' ability to perform them.
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Until recently, Florida law allowed the imposition of a death sentence if a majority of the jury agreed. But the Florida Legislature in 2017 voted to require jury unanimity for a death sentence to be imposed. Relatives of Cruz's victims and others say the law should now be changed.
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WLRN's Gerard Albert III was at the Broward County Courthouse on Thursday to hear the jury's verdict for the Parkland shooter: life in prison. He reports family members of the victims feel betrayed — and delves into how jurors came to that decision and what comes next.