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Georgia (1972), essentially ruling the imposition of the death penalty at the same time as a guilty verdict unconstitutional, Florida was the first state to draft a newly written statute on August 12, 1972, [5] and all 96 death row inmates (95 male and 1 female) were commuted to life in prison.
If Cole is put to death, it will mark Florida's 106th execution since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY.
Five months later, a judge handed down two death sentences for the murders, and a sentence of life in prison for the kidnappings. Cole awaited execution at Lowell Correctional Institution Annex. [10] Cole was one of three women on Florida's death row, the others being Margaret Allen and Tina Brown, each sentenced to death in unrelated murders.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. The total amounts to 106 people. Of the 106 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 62 have been executed by lethal injection .
A Florida death row inmate scheduled to be executed Thursday evening confessed in a documentary that he was responsible for at least two more killings for which he has not been charged, including ...
A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has died in prison, officials said. Paul Beasley Johnson, 74, died Saturday while receiving ...
The prison now known as Florida State Prison opened in 1961 as the East Annex; at the time of opening it began to house the execution chamber. [15] At some point the Broward Correctional Institution housed female death row inmates. [16] Lowell Annex opened in April 2002. [17] The female death row was moved to Lowell Annex in February 2003. [18]
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