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  1. www.wlrn.org › law-justice › 2024/05/29New death penalty rule in Florida is a 'game of chance' that ...

    May 29, 2024 · Imposing sentences of death based on chance is the antithesis of the protections afforded by the Eighth Amendment and, likewise, article I, section 17, of the Florida Constitution,” Kalmanson ...

  2. www.wusf.org › courts-law › 2024/05/29Groups target law lowering jurors needed to recommend death ...

    May 29, 2024 · A 2023 law that lowered the number of jurors needed to recommend the death penalty has resulted in a "quintessential game of chance" for inmates being resentenced because of changes in the state's death-penalty process and unconstitutionally "silences Black voices," groups are arguing in what could be a pivotal Florida Supreme Court case.

  3. www.nytimes.com › 2023/04/20 › usDeSantis Signs Law Lowering Death Penalty Threshold in Florida

    Apr 20, 2023 · MIAMI — Florida will become the state with the lowest threshold for imposing the death penalty under a law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday, which will allow juries to recommend capital...

  4. baynews9.com › fl › tampa'Some call it a slow death;' a critical look at Florida's PRR law

    Nov 12, 2021 · FLORIDA — Life in prison without parole is a sentence meant for the worst criminals in Florida, and the toughest penalty other than a death sentence. But some call life in prison without parole...

  5. www.themarshallproject.org › 2021/05/22 › lifeLife Without Parole Is Replacing the Death Penalty — But the ...

    May 22, 2021 · Almost 56,000 people nationwide are now serving sentences that will keep them locked up until they die, an increase of 66% since 2003, according to The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that advocates for shorter prison terms.

    • Cary Aspinwall

  6. www.tampabay.com › news › floridaFlorida death penalty changes causing ‘chaos,’ attorneys say

    Aug 23, 2023 · The change — prompted by Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz receiving a life sentence after a jury did not unanimously recommend death — gave Florida the lowest death-penalty jury standard in...

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  8. www.themarshallproject.org › 2021/11/11 › twoWhy Florida has the most people serving life without parole ...

    Nov 11, 2021 · Today, Florida has more than 13,600 people serving life without parole, far more than any other state and almost a quarter of the total nationwide. Though this sentence is widely seen as an alternative to the death penalty, which is used in murder cases, 44% of the people serving it in Florida were not convicted of that crime, according to our ...