Posted on 10/17/2022 12:26:34 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Parkland shooter’s life sentence could bring changes to law
Associated Press, Oct 15, 2022
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Florida’s law allowing for a majority jury vote had been in place for decades before it was overturned, but it was an outlier. Almost all death penalty states required unanimity throughout those years or adopted it. Alabama allows a death sentence after a 10-2 vote. Missouri and Indiana allow the judge to decide if jurors unanimously agree the aggravating circumstances exist but can’t agree on a sentence.
Then in 2016, by an 8-1 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Florida’s law, saying the judge had too much weight in the decision.
The Legislature passed a bill requiring a 10-2 jury recommendation, but the state Supreme Court overturned it. In 2017, the law was changed to require a unanimous jury.
Three years later, however, DeSantis, a Republican, replaced three retiring Florida justices with more conservative jurists and the state court rescinded the earlier decision. It said a death recommendation no longer needed to be unanimous, but legislators through three annual sessions haven’t changed the law back from unanimity. DeSantis never pushed them.
I said on cold blood. War is not cold blood.
“minimum” lol
Time to bring back the death penalty for situations like this one.
I’m perfectly happy to let the state cage the murderer until his last breath.
I have always advocated for the return of public hangings. Rapid justice, after conviction, and the deterrent factor built in.
Taxpayers should not be paying for the existence of those who would prey upon society, in such a fashion as mass murder, or any murder for that matter.
I don’t care if a murderer is retarded, disturbed, 12 years old or a regular person. They should be put to death, and quickly.
The very same people who are hard set against the death penalty, don’t believe humans are anything but animals. It is okay to kill an animal who kills humans, why not humans who kill humans?
We need the death penalty back and a quick avenue to it. You kill so shall you be killed
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