Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Florida House panel supports lowering a threshold for sentencing defendants to death


The House Justice Appropriations Subcommittee voted 8-6 to approve a bill (HB 555) that would eliminate a requirement for unanimous jury recommendations before death sentences can be imposed. Under the bill, judges would sentence people to death based on recommendations of eight of 12 jurors.....MORE

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