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May 29, 2024 · 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 ...
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.
Jun 23, 2021 · Brandon Bradley was originally sentenced to death in the killing of Deputy Barbara Pill, but will face life in prison instead.
Dec 26, 2023 · A lowered bar for juries to recommend death sentences, a resumption of executions after three years without one, and moves to expand the crimes eligible for death put Florida at the forefront...
Apr 20, 2023 · The change, which will allow juries to recommend a death sentence with an 8-to-4 vote, was prompted by a Florida jury’s decision last year to sentence to life in prison without parole the...
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 ...
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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 percent since 2003, according to The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that...
